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Optical Kerr nonlinearity and multi-photon absorption of DSTMS measured by Z-scan method

Optics 2021-09-01 v2

Abstract

We investigate the optical Kerr nonlinearity and multi-photon absorption (MPA) properties of DSTMS excited by femtosecond pulses at a wavelengths of 1.43 {\mu}m, which is optimal for terahertz generation via difference frequency mixing. The MPA and the optical Kerr coefficients of DSTMS at 1.43 {\mu}m are strongly anisotropic indicating a dominating contribution from cascaded 2nd-order nonlinearity. These results suggest that the saturation of the THz generation efficiency is mainly related to the MPA process and to a spectral broadening caused by cascaded 2nd-order frequency mixing within DSTMS

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@article{arxiv.2102.03242,
  title  = {Optical Kerr nonlinearity and multi-photon absorption of DSTMS measured by Z-scan method},
  author = {Jiang Li and Rakesh Rana and Liguo Zhu and Cangli Liu and Harald Schneider and Alexej Pashkin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.03242},
  year   = {2021}
}

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5pages, 4 figures