Self-focusing: Past and Present
Fundamentals and Prospects
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Multipartite quantum steering correlation among Raman scattering beams generated by the enhanced Raman scattering process is investigated. In this single-pass nonlinear process, without an optical resonant cav...
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Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen (EPR) steering is a quantum effect based on quantum entanglement and it is the key resource for building quantum networks because of its useful properties. Based on the criterion for ge...
Chapter
The chapter focuses on self-phase modulation (SPM) arising from Kerr nonlinear index n2 which leads to spectral broadening from various physical mechanisms depending on temporal responses: ultrafast(electronic...
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Self-phase modulation refers to the phenomenon in which a laser beam propagating in a medium interacts with the medium and imposes a phase modulation on itself. It is one of those very fascinating effects disc...
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Two types of optical metamaterials operating at near-IR and mid-IR frequencies, respectively, have been designed, fabricated by nanoimprint lithography (NIL), and characterized by laser spectroscopic ellipsome...
Chapter and Conference Paper
Using ultrashort terahertz (THz) pulses we observe stimulated emission between internal energy levels of excitons. Emission occurs in Cu2O due to the 3p to 2s transition at 6.6 meV, with a cross section of 10−14 ...
Chapter and Conference Paper
Optically active sum-frequency generation microscopy was applied to imaging cells, utilizing the intrinsic chirality of biological macromolecules as the contrast mechanism.
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Vibrational spectroscopy via infrared-visible sum-frequency generation was used to probe interfaces of hexagonal ice(0001) with vapor, a hydrophobic solid, and a hydrophilic solid. The OH stretch vibrational m...
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The surface vibrational spectrum of atactic polypropylene was measured using IR+Visible Sum Frequency Generation (SFG) vibrational spectroscopy, in the temperature range 23 to -50 °C. A sharp rise in the inten...
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Surface-specific IR+visible sum frequency generation (SFG) spectroscopy was used to obtain chemical composition of two polymer surfaces. The SFG surface vibrational spectrum of pure low density polyethylene an...
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We report the observation of UV photoluminescence (PL) from wurtzite GaN by multiphoton excitation. The dependence of the PL intensity on excitation intensity as well as PL excitation measurements with sub-ban...
Chapter and Conference Paper
Analysis of the spinning motion of liquid crystal molecules is reported for the first time. A femtosecond pump probe Kerr effect experiment allowed us to evidence both individual and collective contributions t...
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Sum frequency generation (SFG), using non-linear laser optics, detects vibrational spectra of submonolayer amounts of adsorbates with excellent energy and time resolution. Scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STM)...
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A brief overview on second-harmonic generation and sum-frequency generation as surface analytical tools is given with a discussion on the intrinsic limitations of the techniques often encountered in the applic...
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Optical-field-induced birefringence in nematic 4-cyano-4′-pentylbiphenyl was measured with cw pump and probe beams, and the optical-field-induced Freedericksz transition was observed for the first time. The re...
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It is experimentally demonstrated that a circularly polarized laser beam normally incident on a homeotropically aligned nematic film can induce a collective precession of the molecules in the film if the laser...
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The optical-field-induced Fréedericksz transition for a twist deformation by a normally incident laser beam in a planar-aligned nematic liquid crystal is studied. The Euler equation for the molecular director ...