Accurate switching intensities and length scales in quasi-phase-matched materials |
Ole Bang, Torben Winther Graversen, Joel F. Corney
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| Abstract | We consider unseeded typeI second-harmonic generation in quasi-phase-matched quadratic nonlinear materials and derive an accurate analytical expression for the evolution of the average intensity. The intensity- dependent nonlinear phase mismatch that is due to the cubic nonlinearity induced by quasi phase matching is found. The equivalent formula for the intensity of maximum conversion, the crossing of which changes the one-period nonlinear phase shift of the fundamental abruptly by p , corrects earlier estimates [Opt.Lett. 23, 506 (1998)] by a factor of 5.3. We find the crystal lengths that are necessary to obtain an optimal flat phase versus intensity response on either side of this separatrix intensity. |
| Type | Journal paper [With referee] |
| Journal | Optics Letters |
| Year | 2001 Month July Vol. 26 No. 13 pp. 1007-1009 |
| BibTeX data | [bibtex] |
| IMM Group(s) | Mathematical Physics |