{"title":"Phase Conjugation by Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in CClF3 Near the Gas/Liquid Critical Temperature*","authors":"F. Hovis, J. Kelley","doi":"10.1364/JOSAB.6.000840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.6.000840","url":null,"abstract":"Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) in CClF3 near the gas/liquid critical temperature has been found to have a small, frequency-tuneable (~150-300 MHz) shift.","PeriodicalId":208307,"journal":{"name":"Nonlinear Optical Properties of Materials","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132041153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Li, M. Micheli, D. Ostrowsky, E. Lallier, J. Breteau, M. Papuchon, J. Pocholle
{"title":"Optical Waveguide Fabrication in Neodymium Doped Lithium Niobate","authors":"M. Li, M. Micheli, D. Ostrowsky, E. Lallier, J. Breteau, M. Papuchon, J. Pocholle","doi":"10.1049/EL:19880622","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/EL:19880622","url":null,"abstract":"We report the realization of high-quality proton exchanged optical waveguide structures in neodymium doped lithium niobate which will permit the realization of highly efficient semiconductor laser pumped amplifiers, lasers, and non-linear elements.","PeriodicalId":208307,"journal":{"name":"Nonlinear Optical Properties of Materials","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129450814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ying Wang, W. Mahler, A. Suna, E. F. Hilinski, P. Lucas
{"title":"Linear and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Semiconductor Clusters","authors":"Ying Wang, W. Mahler, A. Suna, E. F. Hilinski, P. Lucas","doi":"10.1364/JOSAB.6.000808","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.6.000808","url":null,"abstract":"Polymers and glasses doped with small semiconductor clusters represent a new class of materials. These materials are interesting for two reasons. First, the size of the semicondutor clusters can be controlled to vary from a few to hundreds of Å. This provides a vehicle to study the transition of a semiconductor from molecular to bulk. Secondly, by doping polymers or glasses with these small semiconductor clusters, utilizing their large resonant third order nonlinearity, new optically nonlinear composite materials can be prepared. In this paper we will discuss the linear and nonlinear optical properties of PbS and CdS clusters in polymer films.","PeriodicalId":208307,"journal":{"name":"Nonlinear Optical Properties of Materials","volume":"148 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123250842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Free Carrier Induced Third Order Optical Nonlinearities in Semiconductors*","authors":"S. Yuen","doi":"10.1364/nlopm.1988.tua2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/nlopm.1988.tua2","url":null,"abstract":"We have studied a variety of free carrier induced optical nonlinearities in III-V and II-VI semiconductors and compounds by four-wave mixing experiments with Q-switched CO2 lasers. Third order susceptibilities χ(3) in excess of 10-3 esu with picosecond recovery times have been observed. Because of their rapid recovery, these nonlinear processes can operate at high laser intensities without saturating. The dispersion of the susceptibility provides a easy method to determine relaxation times in the 0.1 to 5 ps. range.","PeriodicalId":208307,"journal":{"name":"Nonlinear Optical Properties of Materials","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121788867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chun-fei Li, Li-Ming Wang, Zion Cha, Mai Xu, Hao-sheng Fei
{"title":"Optical Nonlinearity and Bistability in Artificial Colloidal Materials","authors":"Chun-fei Li, Li-Ming Wang, Zion Cha, Mai Xu, Hao-sheng Fei","doi":"10.1364/nlopm.1988.mf9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/nlopm.1988.mf9","url":null,"abstract":"There is a growing interest in developing low dimensional nonlinear materials in recent years. Some dielectric, metal and semiconductor microparticles doped into the transparent liquid or the glass to form a kind of zero dimensional material, so-called colloidal media, have very large nonlinearity. There are different nonlinear optical mechanisms for the different size of colloidal particles. It can be divided into three types: First, the particle diameter is comparable with or larger than the wavelength of the incident light about 0.1 μm-100 μm, the nonlinear mechanism is due to laser radiation pressure and thermal effect. For example, the liquid suspension of dielectric spheres [1], in which the third-order nonlinear optical susceptibility X(3), is about 10-4-10-5 (esu) with response time (grating formation time ) of 100-200 ms. Second, the particle diameter is less than the wavelength of the incident light about 100-1000Å, the nonlinear mechanism comes from the resonance of surface plasmon. For example, the metal colloid[2] and the semiconductor-doped glass[3], for them the third-order nonlinear susceptibility X(3) is about 10-8-10-9 (esu) with the response time of 1-10 ns. Third, the particle diameter is comparable with or less than the carrier's de Boroglic wavelength, namely with the quantum size about 50-100Å. For example, the glass doped with semiconductor microcrystallites[4] or the metal colloid with above size[5], for them the third-order nonlinear susceptibility X(3) is about 10-9-10-10 (esu) with response time 10-100 ps.","PeriodicalId":208307,"journal":{"name":"Nonlinear Optical Properties of Materials","volume":"105 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127152812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thermal Effects in Ultrafast Photonic Switches","authors":"D. Weidman, M. Newhouse, D. Hall","doi":"10.1364/nlopm.1988.mf13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/nlopm.1988.mf13","url":null,"abstract":"The performance of a nonlinear device may be significantly altered by thermal effects. The heat generated by the absorption of power from the switching laser can induce thermal index changes which may overwhelm the photonic index changes. Here a model of these thermal effects is presented, and expressions for the relationship of thermal to photonic index changes are derived. Previous workers have considered heating due to a single pulse.1 Our treatment snows that, for the appropriate material and device parameter ranges, cumulative thermal build-up will be important in the envisioned high-data-rate systems. Using these results, we compare the potential performance characteristics of various materials, including experimental heavy-metal glasses which show large nonlinear effects.","PeriodicalId":208307,"journal":{"name":"Nonlinear Optical Properties of Materials","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125191748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Sinclair, D. Moses, D. Mcbranch, A. Heeger, J. Yu, W. Su
{"title":"Nonlinear Ground State Fluctuations (Zero Point Motion) as the Source of χ(3) in Polyacetylene","authors":"M. Sinclair, D. Moses, D. Mcbranch, A. Heeger, J. Yu, W. Su","doi":"10.1364/nlopm.1988.tuc3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/nlopm.1988.tuc3","url":null,"abstract":"For a deeper understanding of the nonlinear optical response of conjugated polymers, the connection between the nonresonant response to pumping well below the absorption edge and the resonant response to pumping into the absorption band must be developed. For trans -(CH)X, resonant pumping causes photogeneration of charged solitons; the resulting shifts in oscillator strength lead to relatively large changes in the optical constants. We generalize to the nonresonant regime where the nonlinear response arises from virtual soliton-antisoliton (SS) pairs and is enabled by nonlinear ground state fluctuations, or \"instantons\".","PeriodicalId":208307,"journal":{"name":"Nonlinear Optical Properties of Materials","volume":"195 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115808222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optical Parametric Generation in Hydrothermally-grown KTiOPO4","authors":"H. Vanherzeele, J. Bierlein, F. Zumsteg","doi":"10.1364/nlopm.1988.wc3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/nlopm.1988.wc3","url":null,"abstract":"KTiOPO4 (KTP) is a widely used material for frequency doubling Nd:YAG lasers and other Nd-doped laser systems emitting around 1.06 μm /1/. Second harmonic generation of a 1.32 μm Nd:YAG laser has also been shown in this material /2/. Recently, second harmonic generation at other wavelengths and sum-frequency mixing of the outputs of a Nd:YAG and a near infrared dye laser has been reported in KTP /3/,/4/. Prior to the latter work, sum frequency mixing in KTP of the signal and idler generated by a parametric LilO3 oscillator has also been described /5/. Here, we report the first observation of single-pass optical parametric generation in hydrothermally-grown KTP. By pumping with the second harmonic of a picosecond Nd:YLF laser system (526 nm), we have obtained high peak power radiation tunable from 600 nm to 4.3 μm.","PeriodicalId":208307,"journal":{"name":"Nonlinear Optical Properties of Materials","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133997345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. A. Mullen, D. Rytz, T. Boggess, G. Valley, K. Bohnert, A. Smirl
{"title":"Comparison Between Picosecond and cw Photorefractive Effect in BaTiO3","authors":"R. A. Mullen, D. Rytz, T. Boggess, G. Valley, K. Bohnert, A. Smirl","doi":"10.1364/nlopm.1988.pdp1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/nlopm.1988.pdp1","url":null,"abstract":"The magnitude, erasure fluence, and dark erasure time constants for photorefractive index gratings written with single 30 ps pulses of between 1 and 15 mJ cm-2 at 0.532 μm have been reported previously1,2. Here we report, for comparison, cw measurements at 0.515 μm of these characteristics in the same crystal sample.","PeriodicalId":208307,"journal":{"name":"Nonlinear Optical Properties of Materials","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131560821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On New NLO Crystals of the Borate series — LBO VS BBO","authors":"Chen Chuangtian (C.T. Chen)","doi":"10.1364/nlopm.1988.wc4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/nlopm.1988.wc4","url":null,"abstract":"β-BaB2O4(BBO) is an excellent UV NLO crystal(1). Its salient features may be summarized as follows: 1) it possesses a rather wide phase-matchable range from infrared region to ca. 190 nm; 2) it has a very high damage threshold up to 13 GW/CM2 at 1,064 nm and 1 ns pulsewidth as well as a very wide temperature acceptance width (55°C for SHG at 1,064 nm); 3) it exhibits a NLO coefficient ca. 4 times that of d-36(KDP). As a result, this crystal has been identified as a prime NLO crystal for frequency of dye lasers to generate deep UV radiation. However, BBO crystal has the following shortcomings: 1) since d31≈0, deff of this crystal will decrease with increasing phase-matching angle θpm, and thus BBO crystal cannot be used for 90° noncritical phase-matching; 2) the absorption edge of the crystal appears at 189 nm in the UV range, ca. 30 nm longer than that of the KB5 crystal, thus BBO cannot be used to generate deep UV radiation of wavelength shorter than 200 nm at room temperature; 3) its small angle acceptance width (≈0.80 mrad-cm) also limits its applications in harmonic generation of lasers with larger divergences.","PeriodicalId":208307,"journal":{"name":"Nonlinear Optical Properties of Materials","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131168164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}