Abstract
High-peak-power lasers are typically used as pump sources in nonlinear optical measurements. Intrinsic to these sources are pulse-to-pulse output energy instabilities. We report on how pump instabilities affect the measurement of nonlinear susceptabilites and develop theory which relates statistical parameters of a general, arbitrary pump energy probability distribution to those of its corresponding mth harmonic output. The relation leads to a simple method of data analysis whereby pump instabilities can be used as a tool in determining the nonlinear susceptibility of a material.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 6735-6740 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Journal of Applied Physics |
| Volume | 79 |
| Issue number | 9 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - May 1 1996 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Physics and Astronomy