Birefringence and Anisotropy of the Losses Due to Two-Photon Absorption of Femtosecond Pulses in Crystals

Autor: Valeri Kovalev, George Krasin
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Photonics, Vol 11, Iss 7, p 683 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2304-6732
DOI: 10.3390/photonics11070683
Popis: It is shown that the two-photon absorption (TPA)-induced losses in a non-centrosymmetric crystal reduce considerably when the angle θ between the polarization vector of incident radiation and the optical c-axis is 45°. In such a geometry of interaction in a Ca3(VO4)2 crystal, the effective TPA coefficient for 300 fs laser pulses at θ = 45° is 3.5 ± 0.5 times lower than its maximum at θ = 0°, which is more than two times higher than reported earlier in the literature.
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