Sensitive measurement of optical nonlinearities using a single beam

1990/04/01 by M. Sheik-Bahae, Mansoor Sheik‐Bahae, A.A. Said +7 · 47 citations
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Nonlinear Optical Materials Studies #Photorefractive and Nonlinear Optics #Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies

paper · doi:10.1109/3.53394

Abstract

A sensitive single-beam technique for measuring both the nonlinear refractive index and nonlinear absorption coefficient for a wide variety of materials is reported. The authors describe the experimental details and present a comprehensive theoretical analysis including cases where nonlinear refraction is accompanied by nonlinear absorption. In these experiments, 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 nonlinear refraction are easily deduced from such a transmittance curve (Z-scan). Employing this technique, a sensitivity of better than lambda /300 wavefront distortion is achieved in n/sub 2/ measurements of BaF/sub 2/ using picosecond frequency-doubled Nd:YAG laser pulses.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>

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