Broadband colored-crescent generation in a single {beta}-barium-borate crystal by intense femtosecond pulses
- Department of Physics and National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Nanjing University, 210093 Nanjing (China)
- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, 200062 Shanghai (China)
A visible colored crescent with a bandwidth broader than 220 nm is observed experimentally by loosely focused femtosecond pulses in a bulk quadratic nonlinear crystal ({beta}-BBO crystal) at certain incident angles. Through the analysis based on a simple collinear phase-matching model, we suggest that the colored crescent might be the coexistence of spontaneous parametric down-conversions (SPDCs) in the infrared range and the corresponding efficient second-order harmonic generations (SHGs) that occur in a wide spectrum. We further provide a possible mechanism for the SHG process in which the phase-mismatching angles of the frequency doubling of SPDCs in {beta}-BBO crystal are assumed to be compensated by the strong diffraction effect during the self-focusing process of the generated intense SPDC signals.
- OSTI ID:
- 22095719
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. A, Journal Name: Physical Review. A Journal Issue: 6 Vol. 84; ISSN 1050-2947; ISSN PLRAAN
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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