A two crystal arrangement to fight efficiency saturation in cross-polarized wave generation

A. Jullien 1 O. Albert 1 Gilles Cheriaux 1 Jean Etchepare 1 S. Kourtev 2 N. Minkovski 2 S. M. Saltiel 2
1 LOA - Laboratoire d'optique appliquée
2 Faculty of Physics
Abstract : We describe a method that overcomes the observed saturation effect in cross polarized wave (XPW) generation. The previously reported internal efficiencies for XPW generation are known to be limited to around 15% whatever the length of the nonlinear medium and/or the input intensity values are. At the opposite, the theoretical limit had been estimated to be close to 25%. Here we show that using two thin BaF2 crystals separated at optimum distance the saturation level of XPW generation efficiency can be drastically increased. An internal efficiency of 30% is demonstrated experimentally using two BaF2 crystals.
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A. Jullien, O. Albert, Gilles Cheriaux, Jean Etchepare, S. Kourtev, et al.. A two crystal arrangement to fight efficiency saturation in cross-polarized wave generation. Optics Express, Optical Society of America, 2006, 14 (7), pp.2760-2769. ⟨10.1364/OE.14.002760⟩. ⟨hal-00526306⟩

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