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Enhanced second-harmonic generation by means of high-power confinement in a photovoltaic soliton-induced waveguide
Cibo Lou1, Jingjun Xu, Haijun Qiao
1TEDA Applied Physics School, Photonics Center, College of Physics Science, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.
Optics Letters
|May 18, 2004
Abstract:
We present the first experimental demonstration of enhanced second-harmonic generation (SHG) by means of power confinement with a femtosecond laser in a photovoltaic soliton-induced waveguide. A dark spatial soliton created with a weak cw laser beam in a photovoltaic lithium niobate crystal induces an efficient waveguide for SHG, leading to a 60% enhancement of the conversion efficiency.

