Giant optical nonlinearity due to biexcitons in CuCl
- 6 November 1989
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 55 (19) , 1999-2001
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.102145
Abstract
A lower limit for the value of χ(3) associated with the two-photon resonance of the Γ1 biexcitons in CuCl at 1.6 K is found to be 5.4×10−5 esu. The upper bound of the two-photon resonance width is ΔE=0.02 meV. Broadening of the resonance occurs for light intensities I0>103 W/cm2.Keywords
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