We show that high efficiency stimulated Raman scattering can be obtained using hollow core photonic crystal fiber with the core filled with a low refractive index nonlinear liquid. This new architecture opens new perspectives in the development of nonlinear functions as any kind of nonlinear liquid media can now be used to implement them, with original properties not accessible with silica core...

Hybrid composites of CdSe nanocrystals embedded in allyl diglycol carbonate (CR39) matrices have been prepared and characterized. The measurements show that the linear refractive index of the composite decreases as the CdSe nanocrystal’s weight-percentage concentration increases at the laser wavelengths of 632.8 nm and 532 nm. The room temperature nonlinear optical properties of the hybrid comp...

Single-channel waveguides and Y couplers were fabricated in chalcogenide thin films by use of femtosecond laser pulses from a 25-MHz repetition rate Ti:sapphire laser. Refractive-index differentials (delta n > 10(-2)) were measured through interferometric microscopy and are higher than the typical values reported for oxide glasses. The dependence of the index differential on the peak intensity ...

A polarization-resolved beam deflection technique is used to separate the bound-electronic and molecular rotational components of nonlinear refractive transients of molecular gases. Coherent rotational revivals from N(2), O(2), and two isotopologues of carbon disulfide (CS(2)), are identified in gaseous mixtures. Dephasing rates, rotational and centrifugal distortion constants of each species a...

We present a versatile fabrication approach for scalable complex 3D photonic quasicrystals (PQCs) by a programmable spatial light modulator-assisted single step optical induction of refractive index modulation. We demonstrate for the first time the fabrication of higher order rotational symmetry reconfigurable nonlinear 3D axial PQCs and variants of complex 3D PQCs in externally biased SBN:Ce p...

We show that multipole solitons can be made stable via vectorial coupling in bulk nonlocal nonlinear media. Such vector solitons are composed of mutually incoherent nodeless and multipole components jointly inducing a nonlinear refractive index profile. We found that stabilization of the otherwise highly unstable multipoles occurs below certain maximum energy flow. Such a threshold is determine...

We demonstrate the feasibility of saturation-related third-order x-ray resonant nonlinear effects, in particular, absorption saturation and nonlinear refractive index in x-ray laser and laserlike Se XXV and Mo XXXIII plasmas as well as in other plasmas with lower degrees of ionization.

In this seminar the third-order nonlinear optical phenomena are described. The emphasis is on the nonlinear refractive index n2. We describe the Z-scan technique, which is a simple method to determine n2. At the end we show how Z-scan method can be used to examine protein concentration in human blood.