Phase shift of a femtosecond pulse surfing on a Terahertz wave

Author

Caumes, J.P. ; Videau, L. ; Rouyer, C. ; Freysz, E.

Author_Institution

Centre de Phys. Moleculaire Optique et Hertzienne, Bordeaux I Univ., Talence, France

fYear

2001

fDate

11-11 May 2001

Firstpage

572

Abstract

Summary form only given. We analysed, for the first time, the temporal evolution of the nonlinear phase shift of a femtosecond pulse due to cascaded optical rectification (i.e., THz generation) and electro-optic effect. Our experimental results obtained in 43 m zinc blende single crystals agree with our theoretical analysis. The nonlinear phase shift is maximum at /spl Delta/k=0.

Keywords

nonlinear optical susceptibility; optical Kerr effect; optical harmonic generation; optical phase matching; optical pulse generation; zinc compounds; Terahertz generation; Terahertz wave; ZnSe; ZnTe; cascaded optical rectification; electro-optic effect; femtosecond pulse surfing; heterodyne time-resolved optical Kerr setup; intensity autocorrelation function; noncollinear pump-probe experiment; nonlinear phase shift; phase matched component; temporal evolution; Nonlinear optics; Optical frequency conversion; Optical mixing; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Optical sensors; Probes; Ultrafast optics; Zinc compounds;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2001. CLEO '01. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-662-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2001.948177

Filename

948177