Low-cost nonlinear optics experiment for undergraduate instructional laboratory and lecture demonstration
| Autor: | Sergio Leonardo Gomez, Rozane de Fátima Turchiello, Luiz A. A. Pereira |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
Physics
business.industry Gaussian Measure (physics) Physics::Optics General Physics and Astronomy Nonlinear optics 02 engineering and technology Radius 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology 01 natural sciences law.invention Lens (optics) symbols.namesake Optics law 0103 physical sciences Thermal symbols Focal length 010306 general physics 0210 nano-technology business Gaussian beam |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Physics. 85:522-528 |
| ISSN: | 1943-2909 0002-9505 |
| DOI: | 10.1119/1.4984808 |
| Popis: | This paper presents a simple and affordable experiment on the thermal lens effect, suitable for an undergraduate educational laboratory or as a tabletop demonstration in a lecture on nonlinear optics. Such an experiment exploits the formation of a lens in an absorbing medium illuminated by a laser beam with a Gaussian intensity profile. As an absorber, we use a commercial soy sauce, which exhibits a strong thermal lensing effect. Additionally, we show how to measure the radius of a Gaussian beam using the knife-edge method, and how to estimate the focal length of the induced thermal lens. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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