Title :
Cascade-like nonlinearity caused by local-field effects: Extending bloembergen´s result
Author :
Dolgaleva, Ksenia ; Boyd, Robert W. ; Sipe, John E.
Author_Institution :
The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, NY 14627, USA
Abstract :
We treated the saturation effect in a dense medium up to the fifth order of nonlinearity, and discovered that the expression for the local-field-corrected fifth-order susceptibility disagrees with what was understood to be Bloembergen´s prediction.
Keywords :
Atom optics; Dielectrics; Frequency conversion; Maxwell equations; Microscopy; Nonlinear optics; Optical saturation; Permittivity; Physics; Power generation;
Conference_Titel :
Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, 2007. QELS '07
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD, USA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-834-6
DOI :
10.1109/QELS.2007.4431712
