Z-scan measurements using femtosecond continuum generation

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 Optical Nonlinearities

Femtosecond and nanosecond nonlinear optical properties of alkyl phthalocyanines studied using Z-scan technique

We report our results on nonlinear optical properties of 2(3), 9(10), 16(17), 23(24) tetra tert-butyl phthalocyanine and 2(3), 9(10), 16(17), 23(24) tetra tert-butyl Zinc phthalocyanine studied using Z-scan technique with 800 nm femtosecond and 532 nm nanosecond pulses. Nonlinear absorption behavior in both femtosecond and nanosecond domains was studied in detail. We observed three-photon absor...

Dispersion of nonlinear refraction and two-photon absorption using a white-light continuum Z-scan.

We use a white-light continuum (WLC) Z-scan technique to measure the degenerate two-photon absorption spectrum and associated dispersion of the nonlinear refraction in ZnSe. The spectral components of the WLC source are separated by using a narrow band variable filter to minimize nondegenerate nonlinearities. We observe a change in sign of the ultrafast nonlinear refractive index around 0.7 of ...

Age Differences of Human Frontal Sinus Measurements using CT Scan

Background and Objectives: The frontal sinus is regarded as one of the human paranasal sinuses located in the frontal bone as a triangular-shaped cavity, which originates as separated space from the anterior ethmoid cells. Computed Tomography (CT) is a completely non-destructive technique that uses a high density of contrast to identify the air inside any bony sinus with soft tissue demarcated ...