• DocumentCode
    474723
  • Title

    Highly efficient cross-polarized wave generation in the UV region

  • Author

    Canova, L. ; Minkovski, N. ; Kourtev, S. ; Albert, O. ; Forget, N. ; Oksenhendler, T. ; Martens, R. Lopez ; Saltiel, S.M.

  • Author_Institution
    Lab. d´´Opt. Appl., Ecole Polytech., Palaiseau
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    4-9 May 2008
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate experimentally the generation of cross-polarized wave in BaF2 crystal in the UV. The efficiency in the UV below XPW saturation is about 30 times higher then in visible for the same input intensity.
  • Keywords
    barium compounds; high-speed optical techniques; light polarisation; multiwave mixing; optical saturation; BaF2; BaF2 crystal; cross-polarized wave generation; cross-polarized wave saturation; femtosecond pulses; four-wave mixing; nonlinear effect; pulse characterization; ultraviolet region; (190,7110) Ultrafast nonlinear optics; (320.7090) Ultrafast lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    iet
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-859-9
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    4572651