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Optical Trap Loading of Dielectric Microparticles In Air
Published on: February 5, 2017
Parametric self-trapping in the presence of randomized quasi phase matching
Claudio Conti1, Elena D'Asaro, Salvatore Stivala
1CNR-ISC-Institute of Complex Systems, Department of Physics, University Sapienza, 00185 Rome, Italy.
Optics Letters
|November 18, 2010
Abstract:
We report on experimental evidence of parametric spatial solitons in a quadratic crystal with randomized periodic ferroelectric poling. Two-color self-focusing via quadratic cascading overcomes the diffractive nature of both fundamental and frequency-doubled beams.
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