Cross-polarized wave generation in the UV region

Lorenzo Canova (1) , Stoyan Kourtev (2) , Nikolay Minkovski (2) , Rodrigo B. Lopez-Martens (1) , Olivier Albert (1) , Solomon M. Saltiel (2)

1 LOA - Laboratoire d'optique appliquée
2 Faculty of Physics

We demonstrate experimentally the generation of cross-polarized femtosecond pulses in BaF2 crystal in the UV region. We show that unsaturated cross-polarized wave generation in the UV is six times more efficient than in the visible region, and we deduce the corresponding wavelength dispersion of the third-order nonlinearity.

Domains: Physics [physics]; Physics [physics]; Optics [physics.optics]

Lorenzo Canova, Stoyan Kourtev, Nikolay Minkovski, Rodrigo B. Lopez-Martens, Olivier Albert, et al.. Cross-polarized wave generation in the UV region. Optics Letters, 2008, 33 (20), pp.2299-2301. ⟨10.1364/OL.33.002299⟩. ⟨hal-00528349⟩