Giant nonlinearity and reflectivity hysteresis in metallic gallium at melting
Giant nonlinearity and reflectivity hysteresis in metallic gallium at melting
Cubic optical nonlinearities of metals have recently attracted attention when a sharp increase in the nonlinearity of up to 10-8 to 10-7 esu was seen at the melting point of indium. Here we report on the first experimental observation of an even bigger nonlinearity of the reflection hysteresis from metallic gallium undergoing phase transitions from the solid to molten stage and back to solid. We found that the hysteresis loop can be considerably modified by a pump beam of intensity ~10-50 kWcm-2 corresponding to Im{χ(3)/n} ≈ 0.01 esu.
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Dhanjal, S.
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Shatwell, I.R.
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Zheludev, N.I.
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1997
Dhanjal, S.
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Shatwell, I.R.
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Zheludev, N.I.
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Dhanjal, S., Shatwell, I.R. and Zheludev, N.I.
(1997)
Giant nonlinearity and reflectivity hysteresis in metallic gallium at melting.
In Proceedings of Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO 97).
IEEE.
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Cubic optical nonlinearities of metals have recently attracted attention when a sharp increase in the nonlinearity of up to 10-8 to 10-7 esu was seen at the melting point of indium. Here we report on the first experimental observation of an even bigger nonlinearity of the reflection hysteresis from metallic gallium undergoing phase transitions from the solid to molten stage and back to solid. We found that the hysteresis loop can be considerably modified by a pump beam of intensity ~10-50 kWcm-2 corresponding to Im{χ(3)/n} ≈ 0.01 esu.
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Published date: 1997
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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO '97), , Baltimore, United States, 1997-05-18 - 1997-05-23
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