FEMTOSECOND TIME-DIVISION INTERFEROMETRY TECHNIQUE FOR MEASURING THE TENSOR COMPONENTS OF CHI(3)

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CHAMON, CD
SUN, CK
HAUS, HA
FUJIMOTO, JG
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[1] Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
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10.1063/1.106598
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O59 [应用物理学];
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We describe a new femtosecond time division interferometry technique for characterizing nonlinear index changes from different components of the chi(3) tensor. Pump probe interferometric measurements of nonlinear phase are performed using a time division multiplexed reference pulse. The n2 parallel-to and n2 perpendicular-to components of the nonlinear index are measured by permuting the polarizations of the pulses and using a novel differential detection and modulation scheme. Measurements are demonstrated in an optical fiber.
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