Cascaded highly nondegenerate four-wave-mixing phenomenon in transparent isotropic condensed media
- 1 June 2000
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 25 (11) , 829-831
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.25.000829
Abstract
Broad-bandwidth light pulses with different frequencies, extending from the IR to the UV, are simultaneously generated when two noncollinear, ultrafast laser pulses from a visible dual-frequency laser propagate through bulk isotropic transparent media such as common glass. This phenomenon, which is believed to have been previously unreported, can be explained by a cascade of highly nondegenerate four-wave-mixing processes and corresponds to a coherent scattering effect with geometrically minimized phase mismatch. Frequency-upconverted beams were observed up to the 11th order.Keywords
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