Empirical relationships for predicting nonlinear refractive index changes in optical solids

Journal Article · Tue Aug 01 04:00:00 UTC 1978 · IEEE J. Quant. Electron.; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/JQE.1978.1069847· OSTI ID:6444008

Boling, N L ^[1]; Glass, A J; Owyoung, A

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1. Owens-Illinois, Inc., Toledo, OH

The development of high-power glass lasers has stimulated interest in materials with low index nonlinearity. A number of authors have proposed empirical relations between the nonlinear index and linear dispersion parameters. These expressions are reviewed and related to both classical and quantum theoretic derivations of the index nonlinearity. The major differences arise in the treatment of local field corrections. The good agreement obtained between experiment and theory may be fortuitous, due to the fairly large experimental uncertainty and the fact that all the materials investigated to date are really quite similar, being essentially oxide or fluoride materials.

• OSTI ID: 6444008
• Journal Information: IEEE J. Quant. Electron.; (United States), Journal Name: IEEE J. Quant. Electron.; (United States) Vol. QE-14:8; ISSN IEJQA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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