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Spectral characterization of second harmonic chi((2)) cascading phenomena
Abstract:
The second harmonic generation in a thin ss-barium borate crystal is used to measure chi ((2)) cascading phenomena in the spectral domain. The harmonic generation is induced by two pulses produced by spectrally filtering a femtosecond pulse and centered at the wavelength lambda -Delta lambda and lambda +Delta lambda. New spectral components appear in spectral density of both the fundamental and harmonic pulses. High order cascading phenomena are evidenced. In good agreement with theoretical predictions, for large phase mismatch the evolution of the spectra demonstrates the competition between cascaded chi(2) and chi(3) phenomena.
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