Third and fifth harmonic generation by tightly focused femtosecond pulses at 2.2μm wavelength in air

Gombojav O. Ariunbold; Pavel Polynkin; Jerome V. Moloney

doi:10.1364/OE.20.001662

Third and fifth harmonic generation by tightly focused femtosecond pulses at 2.2μm wavelength in air

Gombojav O. Ariunbold, Pavel Polynkin, Jerome V. Moloney

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We report experiments on the generation of third and fifth harmonics of millijoule-level, tightly focused, femtosecond laser pulses at 2.2μm wavelength in air. The measured ratio of yields of the third and fifth harmonics in our setup is found equal to 2 7middot; 10^-4. This result contradicts the recent suggestion that the Kerr effect in air saturates and changes sign in ultra-intense optical fields.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1662-1667
Number of pages	6
Journal	Optics Express
Volume	20
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.20.001662
State	Published - Jan 16 2012

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