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A New Type of Two-photon Forward Radiation in Pure Liquids

Chemical Physics 2007-06-19 v1 Optics

Abstract

Unexpected spectral features are observed in the two photon spectrum of the pure water in the forward direction when an 80 femtosecond laser pulse is focused at 10^10Wcm-2 or less. Such intensity is much lower than the breakdown or stimulated threshold of the liquid water. The two broad features are about 2700cm-1 and 5000cm-1 red shifted from the hyper-Rayleigh wavelength, respectively, and they are quadratic with the laser intensity. They do not match the known Raman or hyper-Raman frequencies of water, and they are both centered at a narrow angle in the forward direction. Several other liquids also exhibited similar but molecular specific spectral features.

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@article{arxiv.0706.2408,
  title  = {A New Type of Two-photon Forward Radiation in Pure Liquids},
  author = {Hong-tao Bian and Yi Rao and Yan-yan Xu and An-an Liu and Yuan Guo and Hong-fei Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0706.2408},
  year   = {2007}
}

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4 pages, 4 figures