Broadband Femtosecond Frequency Doubling in Random Media

Date

2006

Authors

Fischer, Robert
Saltiel, Solomon
Neshev, Dragomir
Krolikowski, Wieslaw
Kivshar, Yuri

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American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Abstract

The authors demonstrate broadband femtosecond phase-matched noncollinear second-harmonic generation (SHG) in strontium barium niobate crystals with random ferroelectric domains. The process is similar to femtosecond SHG in ultrathin crystals, but it results in higher efficiency and exact mapping of the spectrum of the fundamental field into the spectrum of the second harmonics, even for pulses with complex spectral profiles. The observed parametric conversion process can be used as an efficient frequency mapping from infrared to visible for the femtosecond pulse monitoring.

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Keywords: Crystals; Ferroelectric materials; Laser pulses; Second harmonic generation; Strontium compounds; Frequency mapping; Parametric conversion; Ultrathin crystals; Frequency doublers

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Applied Physics Letters

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