Femtosecond Z-scan measurements of nonlinear refraction in nonlinear optical crystals

Femtosecond Z-scan measurements of nonlinear refraction in nonlinear optical crystals

We report an investigation of third-order optical nonlinearities in several nonlinear optical crystals using the Z-scan technique with femtosecond laser pulses at 780 nm wavelength. The crystals studied include LiNbO3:MgO, KTiOAsO4, KTiOPO4, b-BaB2O4 and LiB3O5, which are extensively used for ultrashort-pulse second-harmonic generation and optical parametric oscillation. The nonlinear refractiv...

Z-scan measurements of the anisotropy of nonlinear refraction and absorption in crystals.

The techniques most often used to determine components of the third-order susceptibility, x(3), include degenerate four-wave mixing, 1 nearly degenerate threeand four-wave mixing, 2 ellipse rotation, 3 optical third-harmonic generation,4 photoacoustics,5 beam-distortion methods,6 8 and nonlinear transmission.9 Some of these have been adapted to measure the anisotropy of x<a) .2•5•6•9 We introdu...

Nonlinear Optical Investigation of Biochemical Analytes in Blood Serum via Z-Scan Technique

Background and Aims: Biomolecules' optical and nonlinear optical properties are widely used for different medical diagnoses and applications in biophotonic devices. These properties are essential in studying biological processes in living tissues. Aside from biomolecules' linear optical characteristics, their nonlinear optical characteristics have lately been considered. Materials and Methods:...

Z-scan study of nonlinear absorption in reduced LiNbO3 crystals

Z -scan: a Simple and Sensitive Technique for Nonlinear Refraction Measurements

We describe a sensitive technique for measuring nonlinear refraction in a variety of materials that offers simplicity, sensitivity and speed. The transmittance of a sample is measured through a finite aperture in the far -field as the sample is moved along the propagation path (z) of a focused Gaussian beam. The sign and magnitude of the nonlinearity is easily deduced from such a transmittance ...