Title :
Effect of a tightly focused Gaussian beam on the broadband SHG response of chirped poled lithium niobate
Author :
Bostani, Ameneh ; Ahlawat, Meenu ; Tehranchi, Amirhossein ; Morandotti, Roberto ; Kashyap, Rekha
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Eng. Phys., Ecole Polytech. de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
Abstract :
It is demonstrated, both theoretically and experimentally, that employing tightly focused Gaussian beam is possible to engineer the efficiency profiles and suppresses ripples in the second-harmonic response of a 30-nm-bandwidth chirped aperiodically poled lithium niobate.
Keywords :
lithium compounds; optical focusing; optical harmonic generation; LiNbO3; broadband SHG response; chirped aperiodically poled lithium niobate; second-harmonic response; tightly focused Gaussian beam; Bandwidth; Chirp; Focusing; Frequency conversion; Gratings; Laser beams; Lithium niobate;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
