TITLE:
Nonlinear Cascaded Femtosecond Third Harmonic Generation by Multi-grating Periodically Poled MgO-doped Lithium Niobate
AUTHORS:
Shuanggen Zhang, Wenchao You, Zhangchao Huang
KEYWORDS:
Femtosecond; Third Harmonic Generation; Second Harmonic Generation; Cascaded Nonlinear Process
JOURNAL NAME:
Optics and Photonics Journal,
Vol.3 No.2B,
July
18,
2013
ABSTRACT: Nonlinear cascaded femtosecond third harmonic generation
was experimentally investigated pumped by 100 fs pulses at optical
communication band 1550 nm using a multi-grating 5 mol. % MgO-doped
periodically poled lithium niobate crystal. The optimized efficiency of 10.8%
was achieved with the simultaneous phase-matching of the second harmonic and
sum frequency process. And the third harmonic spectrum reached as broad as 8.7
nm because of the choosing of a small group velocity mismatching between the
fundamental and second harmonic pulses. Nonlinear cascaded method will provide
a reference for the efficient frequency conversion in the high intensity range.