Back to Search
Start Over
Elimination of the coherent effect in the optical Kerr measurement of bismuth glass using supercontinuum.
- Source :
- Journal of Applied Physics; Jun2011, Vol. 109 Issue 12, p123104, 4p
- Publication Year :
- 2011
-
Abstract
- A strong coherent effect was observed in the monochromatic optical Kerr effect (OKE) experiment of a Bi2O3-B2O3-SiO2 oxide glass (BI glass). To eliminate the influence of the coherent effect, we proposed a simple femtosecond two-color OKE measurement method with wavelength tunability using a supercontinuum. In the two-color OKE measurement the third order nonlinear susceptibility of the BI glass was measured to be 1.64 × 10-13 electrostatic units (esu), in which the influence of the coherent effect was eliminated. The result is smaller than that obtained in a previous monochromatic OKE experiment. In addition, we discuss the discrepancies between the result obtained in this paper and those reported in other studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- KERR electro-optical effect
BISMUTH
OXIDES
GLASS
FEMTOSECOND lasers research
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00218979
- Volume :
- 109
- Issue :
- 12
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Applied Physics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 62010696
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3597787