E. R. Youngdale, J. Meyer, C. Hoffman, F. Bartoli, W. I. Wang
{"title":"TYPE-II SUPERLATTICES AND VARIABLE OVERLAP SUPERLATTICES IN TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION SWITCHES FOR THE LONGWAVE INFRARED","authors":"E. R. Youngdale, J. Meyer, C. Hoffman, F. Bartoli, W. I. Wang","doi":"10.1142/S0218199193000255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218199193000255","url":null,"abstract":"We derive explicit criteria for the properties required of a semiconductor nonlinear medium suitable for use in all-optical switching devices employing total internal reflection. Transmission as a function of laser intensity and film thickness has been calculated using a realistic model for penetration of the evanescent beam under TIR conditions. Requirements based on these results include a large nonlinear refractive index, large index change at saturation and small absorption coefficient. We show that unlike previously-studied semimetals and narrow-gap semiconductors, Type-II superlattices such as InAs-GaSb and variable-overlap superlattices (variants of Type-II which include a spacer between the layer containing the conduction-band minimum and that containing the valence band maximum) such as InAs-AlSb-GaSb hold prospects for satisfying all of these requirements simultaneously. As the free carrier lifetime will have a crucial influence on device performance, we have initiated a systematic experimental ...","PeriodicalId":361062,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics","volume":"30 9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127272013","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":"PHASE CONJUGATION OF CO2 LASER RADIATION","authors":"V. E. Sherstobitov","doi":"10.1142/S0218199193000280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218199193000280","url":null,"abstract":"A review of the various techniques of using phase conjugation mirrors to improve the quality of high power CO2 lasers is presented. Emphasis will be on the problem of energy and power scaling of phase conjugation mirrors. Experimental results obtained by various groups are discussed and possible future directions are pointed out.","PeriodicalId":361062,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122560088","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}
V. Glaw, K. Janiak, A. Kummrow, V. Penschke, H. Eichler
{"title":"THERMAL RELAXATION TIMES OF BISTABLE THIN FILM ELEMENTS","authors":"V. Glaw, K. Janiak, A. Kummrow, V. Penschke, H. Eichler","doi":"10.1142/S0218199193000127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218199193000127","url":null,"abstract":"The heat flow in evaporated thin film interference filters with CdS spacer and an optional CdSe absorption layer is investigated, analyzing the dynamics of optical bistability. The influence of the spot radius r of the exciting laser beam on the switching parameters is studied experimentally and theoretically. The response to pulsed excitation of the bistable devices can be described with a relaxation time τ~r and an effective nonlinearity χ~r−2 which is inversely proportional to the heat capacity of the bistable element.","PeriodicalId":361062,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122807626","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}
J. Shirk, J. Lindle, F. Bartoli, Z. Kafafi, A. Snow, M. E. Boyle
{"title":"THIRD-ORDER NONLINEAR OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF METALLO-PHTHALOCYANINES","authors":"J. Shirk, J. Lindle, F. Bartoli, Z. Kafafi, A. Snow, M. E. Boyle","doi":"10.1142/S0218199192000340","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218199192000340","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the third-order nonlinear optical (NLO) properties of metal-free, lead and transition metal phthalocyanines, as well as scandium, yttrium and lanthanide bisphthalocyanines measured by time-resolved degenerate four-wave mixing at 1064 nm. The study focuses on the structure-property relationships and explores the possible mechanisms leading to the enhanced third-order optical nonlinearity measured for this interesting class of NLO materials.","PeriodicalId":361062,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126836076","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}
I. Pinkevich, Y. Reznikov, V. Reshetnyak, O. Yaroshchuk
{"title":"CONFORMATIONAL OPTICAL NONLINEARITY OF NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS","authors":"I. Pinkevich, Y. Reznikov, V. Reshetnyak, O. Yaroshchuk","doi":"10.1142/S0218199192000224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218199192000224","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":361062,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123111470","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":"SECOND-HARMONIC GENERATION FROM METAL SURFACES","authors":"S. Janz, H. Driel","doi":"10.1142/S0218199193000024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218199193000024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":361062,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125552409","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":"EXCITONIC BAND-EDGE ELECTRO-ABSORPTION IN MULTIPLE-QUANTUM-WELL WAVEGUIDE MODULATOR STRUCTURES","authors":"N. Hunt, P. Jessop","doi":"10.1142/S0218199192000170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218199192000170","url":null,"abstract":"Electric field induced changes in the excitonic band-edge absorption spectra of Multiple-Quantum-Well (MQW) structures were investigated theoretically and experimentally. A comparison was made of three different exactly solvable methods for calculating quantum-well energies. The small effects due to conduction-band nonparabolicity and valence-band mixing were included. Transmission spectra were recorded for an In.12Ga.88As-GaAs optical waveguide modulator structure. The theoretical model was used to predict the changes in the long-wavelength tail of the band-edge absorption for different electric fields.","PeriodicalId":361062,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114173829","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}
P. Ye, Ruihua Zhang, X. Mi, Haitian Zhou, Q. Jiang
{"title":"STUDY OF TIME-DELAY FOUR-WAVE MIXING WITH INCOHERENT LIGHT IN ABSORPTION BANDS I: Theory","authors":"P. Ye, Ruihua Zhang, X. Mi, Haitian Zhou, Q. Jiang","doi":"10.1142/S0218199192000121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218199192000121","url":null,"abstract":"A multilevel model, including homogeneous and inhomogeneous broadening, is proposed for the study of time-delay four-wave mixing with incoherent light (TDFWM-IL) in absorption bands consisting of a series of vibrational transitions. A theory of TDFWM-IL is developed for this model, and a general formula for the delay-time dependence of the signal intensity Is(τ), considering both the homogeneous and inhomogeneous broadening of the transitions, is deduced. Special analyses are given to the homogeneous and inhomogeneous limits. The differences between Is(τ) derived from multilevel theory and from two-level theory, are pointed out. When the homogeneous broadening of individual transitions is much smaller than the frequency interval of adjacent transitions, Is(τ) in the multilevel theory is modulated periodically and the envelope is close to that in the two-level theory for both the homogeneous and inhomogeneous limits. When the individual transitions are homogeneously broadened enough so that an unresolved continuous band is formed, an effective two-level model can still be used approximately for the studies of TDFWM-IL in this continuous band, with both homogeneous and inhomogeneous broadening. However, the dephasing time in the formula of Is(τ) in this effective two-level model is not the real dephasing time of an individual transition of the band, but the effective one which reflects the behavior of the whole band.","PeriodicalId":361062,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125436860","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":"NONLINEAR EFFECTS IN ELECTRON AND PHOTON EMISSION FROM ATOMS IN INTENSE LASER FIELDS","authors":"K. Schafer, J. Krause, K. Kulander","doi":"10.1142/S0218199192000133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218199192000133","url":null,"abstract":"Atoms subject to intense laser fields are capable of absorbing many more photons than the minimum number needed to ionize. This leads to two striking nonlinear phenomena, above-threshold ionization, and high-order harmonic generation. We have used time-dependent methods to calculate both these processes nonperturbatively for realistic, three-dimensional atoms. This allows us to clarify the relationships between photon and electron emission rates in the strong field regime.","PeriodicalId":361062,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125212792","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":"GENERALIZED DESCRIPTION OF THE EFFECTS OF A THIN NONLINEAR MEDIUM UPON THE PROPAGATION OF AN OPTICAL BEAM","authors":"R. Mcduff, A. Smith, N. Heckenberg, J. Hermann","doi":"10.1142/S0218199192000145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218199192000145","url":null,"abstract":"A theoretical description of the propagation of an initially Gaussian beam through a “generalized” thin nonlinear medium is developed, where the linear part of the optical system can be characterized by an ABCD matrix. The optical field is determined on the output interface of the medium and is decomposed into Gaussian-Laguerre modes. These modes are then propagated through the optical system using the ABCD law, so that the field distribution at any point can be determined. We obtain an expression for the on-axis relative transmissivity of the combined system, which is valid for nonlinear absorption regimes to all orders of nonlinearity. The positions of the turning points of the normalized axial transmissivity as a function of the position of the medium are derived analytically to the first-order of nonlinearity. It is shown that, from measurements of these positions, the nonlinear refractive and absorptive strengths as well as the type of nonlinearity can be extracted.","PeriodicalId":361062,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121582829","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}