Cascaded highly nondegenerate four-wave-mixing phenomenon in transparent isotropic condensed media

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2000

Authors

Crespo, H (Author) Other; Mendonca, JT (Author) Other; Dos Santos, A (Author) Other

Journal

Title: Optics Letters

Vol. 25

Pages: 829-831

ISSN: 0146-9592

Publisher: Optical Society of America

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Scientific classification

FOS: Natural sciences > Physical sciences

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-000-ZZP

DOI: 10.1364/ol.25.000829

Abstract (EN): Broad-bandwidth light pulses with different frequencies, extending from the IR to the UV, are simultaneously generated when two noncollinear, ultrafast laser pulses from a visible dual-frequency laser propagate through bulb isotropic transparent media such as common glass. This phenomenon, which is believed to have been previously unreported, can be explained by a cascade of highly nondegenerate four-wave-mixing processes and corresponds to a coherent scattering effect with geometrically minimized phase mismatch. Frequency-upconverted beams were observed up to the 11th order. (C) 2000 Optical Society of America.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific