Determination of the third-order nonlinear optical coefficients of germanium through ellipse rotation
- 1 June 1980
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 5 (6) , 248-249
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.5.000248
Abstract
We describe the first reported direct determination of the 10-μm nonlinear susceptibility in intrinsic Ge through time-resolved ellipse rotation. We found that and , significantly below previous estimates.
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