EFFECTS OF DISPERSION AND FOCUSING ON PRODUCTION OF OPTICAL HARMONICS
EFFECTS OF DISPERSION AND FOCUSING ON PRODUCTION OF OPTICAL HARMONICS
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DOI:
10.1103/physrevlett.8.21
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发表时间:
1962-01-01
影响因子:
8.6
通讯作者:
NISENOFF, M
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作者:
MAKER, PD;SAVAGE, CM;NISENOFF, M
Recently Franken et al.'demonstrated the generation of optical harmonics utilizing the nonlin-earity in the electric susceptibility of piezoelec-tric crystals. Using a classical approach one can think of the laser red light generating a spatial arrangement of dipoles which in turn radiate blue light. For the case of a plane wave incident on a crystal of thickness x, the intensity of the blue light radiated in the forward direction is 8= 2wcP'(k/hk)'sin2hkx, n, k= Ik-2k I,'b''= b where k~ and ky are the wave vectors for the red and blue lights, respectively, and P is the magni-tude of the induced blue polarization. The sin Akx term arises because of dephasing between red ra-diation (blue polarization) and blue radiation, due to dispersion of the crystal. This dephasing lim-its the effectivecrystal thickness. These disper-sive effects have been demonstrated in quartz. A ruby laser beam was passed through an opti-cally plane-parallel quartz platelet, the red light filtered out using a CuSO4 solution filter and a grating monochrometer, and the blue lightinten-sity measured photoelectrically. The sample was inclined to the beam by rotation about its z axis, thus increasing the optical thickness and generat-ing thecurve shown in Fig. 1. The spacing be-tween successive maxima when reduced to thickness changes agreed well with the calculatedval-ue, 13. 9 micr ons.% e were able to balance out the effect of dis-persion in potassium dihydrogen phosphate (KDP). The matrix elements relating harmonic polariza-tion to applied electric field, as limited by sym-metry and conservation of electromagnetic ener-gy, are for KDP: