We extend our recently developed Beam-Deflection (BD) method which we used to determine the sign, magnitude, and ultrafast dynamics of bound electronic and nuclear nonlinear optical responses, to measure elements of the third-order nonlinear optical susceptibility tensor with longitudinal field components. In these measurements, in contrast to the conventional BD technique where excitation and ...

Mid-infrared (MIR) sideband generation on a near infrared (NIR) optical carrier is demonstrated within a quantum cascade laser (QCL). By employing an externally injected NIR beam, E(NIR), that is resonant with the interband transitions of the quantum wells in the QCL, the nonlinear susceptibility is enhanced, leading to both frequency mixing and sideband generation. A GaAs-based MIR QCL (E(QCL)...

Some 15 years ago, optical topographic signals with subwavelength resolution were obtained independently by several experimental teams. Since this exploratory period, a growing number of experimental configurations have been proposed and continuously developed. Simultaneously, this research field was supported by different theoretical works, aimed at developing our understanding of the interact...

The optical second-harmonic generation SHG and the linear optical properties were investigated in a planar cell containing aligned nonchiral nematic derivative of B10H10 : 14-heptyloxypyridin-1-yl -104-pentyl-1-thiacyclohexyl -closo-decaborane HPTD as a function of temperature. The compound showed a low level of the SHG signal in the polycrystalline state, and no nonlinear optical effect was de...

We propose and systematically investigate a novel tunable, compact room temperature terahertz (THz) source based on difference frequency generation in a hybrid optical and THz micro-ring resonator. We describe detailed design steps of the source capable of generating THz wave in 0.5-10 THz with a tunability resolution of 0.05 THz by using high second order optical susceptibility (χ((2))) in cry...

The “mixed alkali effect” is one of the classical anomalies of glass science. We report here an interesting phenomenon “Mixed Alkali Effect” observed for a series of Cu ions doped xLi2O-(30x)Na2O-70B2O3 (5 ≤ x ≤ 25) glasses, investigated by EPR and optical absorption techniques. The EPR spectra of all the investigated samples exhibit resonance signals characteristic of Cu ions in octahedral sit...

This work investigates the structural and nonlinear optical properties of a D-A type 1-[4-({(E)-[4-(methylsulfanyl)phenyl]methylidene}amino)phenyl]ethanone, MMP in which charge transfer occurs from -SCH3 donor to -COCH3 acceptor group through methylidene backbone; and some of its modeled analogues using quantum chemical calculations with pure BLYP and hybrid B3LYP correlation with high basis se...