Title :
Measurement of fifth- and seventh-order susceptibilities of glasses using two-beam coupling
Author :
Chen, Y.F. ; Beckwitt, K. ; Wise, E.W.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Appl. Phys., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, USA
Abstract :
Two-beam coupling is used to determine higher-order nonlinearities of several glasses with a range of absorption edges. We observe evidence of fifth-order and present the first observation of seventh-order susceptibilities in glasses.
Keywords :
multiwave mixing; nonlinear optical susceptibility; optical glass; absorption edges; fifth-order susceptibilities; glasses; higher-order nonlinearities; seventh-order susceptibilities; two-beam coupling;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-777-6
