Two-photon absorption of high-power picosecond pulses in PbWO{sub 4}, ZnWO{sub 4}, PbMoO{sub 4}, and CaMoO{sub 4} crystals
The nonlinear process of two-photon interband absorption is studied in tungstate and molybdate oxide crystals excited by a sequence of high-power picosecond pulses with a wavelength of 523.5 nm. The transmission of the crystals is measured for the excitation pulse intensity up to 100 GW/cm{sup 2}. The pulse intensity in the crystals initially transparent at a wavelength of 523.5 nm is strongly limited due to two-photon absorption (TPA), and the reciprocal transmission in PbWO{sub 4} and ZnWO{sub 4} crystals reaches 50-60. In all crystals, TPA induces long-lived one-photon absorption, which affects the nonlinear process dynamics and leads to a hysteresis in the dependence of the transmission on the laser excitation intensity. Absorption dichroism manifests itself in a significant difference in the transmission intensities when the principal orthogonal optical axes of the crystals are excited. The TPA coefficients are determined during the excitation of two optical axes of the crystals. TPA coefficients {beta} for the crystals vary over a wide range, namely, from {beta} = 2.4 cm/GW for PbMoO{sub 4} to {beta} = 0.14 cm/GW for CaMoO{sub 4}, and the values of {beta} can differ almost threefold when different optical axes of a crystal are excited. Good agreement is achieved between the measured intensities limited by TPA and the estimates calculated from the measured nonlinear coefficients. Stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) upon excitation at a wavelength of 523.5 nm is only detected in two of the four crystals under study. The experimental results make it possible to explain the suppression of SRS by its competition with TPA, and the measured nonlinear coefficients are used to estimate this suppression.
- OSTI ID:
- 22028026
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics, Vol. 113, Issue 3; Other Information: Copyright (c) 2011 Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1063-7761
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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