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| author | Kawamori, Taiki Schunemann, Peter G. Gruzdev, Vitaly Vodopyanov, Konstantin L. |
| author_facet | Kawamori, Taiki Schunemann, Peter G. Gruzdev, Vitaly Vodopyanov, Konstantin L. |
| contents | We report a study of high-order multi-photon absorption, nonlinear refraction, and their anisotropy in four notable mid-infrared \c{hi}(2) crystals: GaP, ZnSe, GaSe and ZGP using the Z- scan method and 2.35-μm femtosecond pulses with peak intensity in excess of 200 GW/cm2. We found that the nonlinear absorption obeys a perturbation model with multi-photon absorption (MPA) orders from N = 4 to 6, in good agreement with the bandgaps of the crystals. A study of the role of free carrier absorption, performed by varying the pulse duration between 30 and 70 fs while maintaining a constant peak intensity showed that at our intensity levels, free carriers generated in the process of MPA absorb much stronger than would be expected from their linear absorption cross section. Possible mechanisms include high-field effects, such as intra-valley scattering in the conduction band and absorption to higher lying bands. Nonlinear refractive indices were measured using (i) closed aperture Z-scan and (ii) spectral broadening due to self-phase modulation, both methods agreeing well with each other. |
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| spellingShingle | High-order (N=4-6) multi-photon absorption and mid-infrared Kerr nonlinearity in GaP, ZnSe, GaSe, and ZGP crystals Kawamori, Taiki Schunemann, Peter G. Gruzdev, Vitaly Vodopyanov, Konstantin L. Optics We report a study of high-order multi-photon absorption, nonlinear refraction, and their anisotropy in four notable mid-infrared \c{hi}(2) crystals: GaP, ZnSe, GaSe and ZGP using the Z- scan method and 2.35-μm femtosecond pulses with peak intensity in excess of 200 GW/cm2. We found that the nonlinear absorption obeys a perturbation model with multi-photon absorption (MPA) orders from N = 4 to 6, in good agreement with the bandgaps of the crystals. A study of the role of free carrier absorption, performed by varying the pulse duration between 30 and 70 fs while maintaining a constant peak intensity showed that at our intensity levels, free carriers generated in the process of MPA absorb much stronger than would be expected from their linear absorption cross section. Possible mechanisms include high-field effects, such as intra-valley scattering in the conduction band and absorption to higher lying bands. Nonlinear refractive indices were measured using (i) closed aperture Z-scan and (ii) spectral broadening due to self-phase modulation, both methods agreeing well with each other. |
| title | High-order (N=4-6) multi-photon absorption and mid-infrared Kerr nonlinearity in GaP, ZnSe, GaSe, and ZGP crystals |
| topic | Optics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.15411 |