Spatial Beam Self-Cleaning in Second-Harmonic Generation

Autor: R. Fona, Guy Millot, Stefan Wabnitz, Katarzyna Krupa, Badr Mohamed Ibrahim Shalaby, Vincent Couderc, Fabio Baronio, Alexis Labruyère, Alessandro Tonello, Alejandro B. Aceves
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Scientific Reports, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2020)
Scientific Reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-64080-7
Popis: We experimentally demonstrate the spatial self-cleaning of a highly multimode optical beam, in the process of second-harmonic generation in a quadratic nonlinear potassium titanyl phosphate crystal. As the beam energy grows larger, the output beam from the crystal evolves from a highly speckled intensity pattern into a single, bell-shaped spot, sitting on a low energy background. We demonstrate that quadratic beam cleanup is accompanied by significant self-focusing of the fundamental beam, for both positive and negative signs of the linear phase mismatch close to the phase-matching condition.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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