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Phys Rev Lett. 2002 Jan 14;88(2):023903. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.023903. Epub 2001 Dec 26.

Multiple nonlinear optical interactions with arbitrary wave vector differences.

Physical review letters

Keren Fradkin-Kashi, Ady Arie, Pavel Urenski, Gil Rosenman

Affiliations

  1. Department of Electrical Engineering-Physical Electronics, Faculty of Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv 69978, Israel. [email protected]

PMID: 11801015 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.023903

Abstract

We present a novel method for simultaneously phase matching several nonlinear optical interactions within a single crystal. Quasiperiodic modulation of the nonlinear coefficient enables one to achieve high frequency mixing efficiencies for interactions with arbitrary wave vector differences. Doubling of two different frequencies as well as direct frequency tripling is experimentally demonstrated. The temperature- and wavelength-dependent properties of these interactions are explored. We discover that periodic approximation to the quasiperiodic structure shifts the phase-matched wavelengths.

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