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Opt Express. 2013 Jan 14;21(1):135-44. doi: 10.1364/OE.21.000135.

Influence of cubic nonlinearity on accuracy of polarization transformation by means of a quarter-wave plate.

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M S Kuzmina, E A Khazanov, A A Shaykin, A N Stepanov, Yu Malkov

Affiliations

  1. Institute of Applied Physics RAS, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950, Russia. [email protected]

PMID: 23388904 DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.000135

Abstract

We consider the propagation of powerful laser radiation in an anisotropic medium with natural birefringence and cubic nonlinearity. By the example of a quarter-wave plate, we show theoretically and experimentally that, under the simultaneous influence of linear birefringence and nonlinearity, the accuracy of polarization transformation decreases in proportion to squared В-integral.

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