Enhancement of third harmonics generation during ultrashort pulse diffraction in multi-layer volume grating

Yizhou Tan; Yisheng Yang; Jiali Liao; Ming Zhang

doi:10.1117/12.2034729

17 September 2013 Enhancement of third harmonics generation during ultrashort pulse diffraction in multi-layer volume grating

Yizhou Tan, Yisheng Yang, Jiali Liao, Ming Zhang

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Proceedings Volume 8904, International Symposium on Photoelectronic Detection and Imaging 2013: High Power Lasers and Applications; 89041F (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2034729
Event: ISPDI 2013 - Fifth International Symposium on Photoelectronic Detection and Imaging, 2013, Beijing, China

Abstract

Successful phase-matching methods for Third Harmonics Generation (THG) include phase-matching in birefringent crystal and quasi-phase-matching (QPM) in crystal with periodically poled domains. However, these methods are not feasible in some isotropic materials (e.g. fused silica and photosensitive silicate glass). It was known that volume-grating in isotropic materials can independently generate frequency-converted waves. One of disadvantages of single-layer volumegrating is that the brightness of harmonic emission can not be enhanced by increasing the grating thickness. In this paper, a THG device with stratified sub-gratings was designed to enhance THG in isotropic materials: several sub-gratings were arranged parallel, and the grating-figures misalignment between neighboring sub-gratings was pre-fabricated. In terms of extension of interaction length in THG, our multi-layer sub-grating is formally equivalent to the multi-layer periodically poled crystal (e.g. lithium niobate) in conventional QPM approach. According to the calculation results, the N-layer (N <2) can, in principle, generate TH output intensity of N² times stronger than single-layer volume-grating does, also compared to N times stronger than N-layer without figures-misalignment. The effect of random fabrication error in grating thickness on normalized conversion efficiency was discussed.

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Yizhou Tan, Yisheng Yang, Jiali Liao, and Ming Zhang "Enhancement of third harmonics generation during ultrashort pulse diffraction in multi-layer volume grating", Proc. SPIE 8904, International Symposium on Photoelectronic Detection and Imaging 2013: High Power Lasers and Applications, 89041F (17 September 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2034729

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Phase shift keying

Diffraction gratings

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Modulation

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