Title :
Experimental observation of a microscopic cascaded contribution to the fifth-order nonlinear susceptibility
Author :
Dolgaleva, Ksenia ; Shin, Heedeuk ; Boyd, Robert W. ; Sipe, John E.
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Opt., Univ. of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
Abstract :
We report the first, to the best of our knowledge, experiment on the separation of the microscopic cascaded contribution to the fifth-order nonlinear susceptibility, which comes from the third-order microscopic hyperpolarizability.
Keywords :
light diffraction; multiwave mixing; nonlinear optical susceptibility; polarisability; degenerate four-wave mixing scheme; fifth-order nonlinear susceptibility; microscopic cascaded contribution; self-diffraction phenomena; third-order microscopic hyperpolarizability; Atom optics; Diffraction; Four-wave mixing; Laser beams; Network address translation; Nonlinear optics; Optical microscopy; Optical mixing; Optical propagation; Physics; (190.4380) Nonlinear optics, four-wave mixing; (270.4180) Multiphoton processes;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2009. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-869-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-869-8
