Precise and absolute measurements of complex third-order optical susceptibility

Stephane Santran; Lionel Canioni; Thierry Cardinal; Evelyne Fargin; Gilles Le Flem; Claude Rouyer; Laurent Sarger

doi:10.1117/12.408524

29 November 2000 Precise and absolute measurements of complex third-order optical susceptibility

Stephane Santran, Lionel Canioni, Thierry Cardinal, Evelyne Fargin, Gilles Le Flem, Claude Rouyer, Laurent Sarger

Proceedings Volume 4106, Linear, Nonlinear, and Power-Limiting Organics; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.408524
Event: International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, 2000, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

We present precise and absolute measurements of full complex third order optical susceptibility on different fused silica and original glasses composed of tellurium, titanium, niobium erbium. These materials are designed to be the key point for applications ranging form high power laser systems to optoelectronics, their nonlinear index of refraction is a major property and thus must be accurately known. Due to the accuracy and sensitivity of our technique, we have been able to find a large dispersion (more than 30%) of the non linear index of fused silica glasses as a function of their processing mode. On the other hand, measurements on tellurium glasses have shown very strong nonlinearities (40 times higher than fused silica), to be linked to the configurations of their cations and anions. Although the titanium and niobium glasses are less nonlinear, they can be promising matrices for addition of luminescent entities like erbium leading to very interesting laser amplification materials. The experimental set-up is a collinear pump-probe (orthogonally polarized) experiment using transient absorption technique. It is built with around a 100 femtosecond laser oscillator. A fast oscillating delay between the pump and the probe allows us to measure the electronic nonlinearity in quasi real-time. This experiment has the following specifications: an absolute measurement accuracy below 10% mainly due to the laser parameters characterization, a relative measurement accuracy of 1% and a resolution less than 5.10^-24m²/V²(50 times less than fused silica).

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Stephane Santran, Lionel Canioni, Thierry Cardinal, Evelyne Fargin, Gilles Le Flem, Claude Rouyer, and Laurent Sarger "Precise and absolute measurements of complex third-order optical susceptibility", Proc. SPIE 4106, Linear, Nonlinear, and Power-Limiting Organics, (29 November 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.408524

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