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Giant nonlinearity and reflectivity hysteresis in metallic gallium at melting

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.

223-224
IEEE
Dhanjal, S.
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Shatwell, I.R.
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Zheludev, N.I.
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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. pp. 223-224 .

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Abstract

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
Venue - Dates: Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO '97), , Baltimore, United States, 1997-05-18 - 1997-05-23
Organisations: Optoelectronics Research Centre

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Local EPrints ID: 76595
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/76595
PURE UUID: fc0a4a18-8b23-4d73-a4ab-2e7b2b4f1821
ORCID for N.I. Zheludev: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1013-6636

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Date deposited: 11 Mar 2010
Last modified: 06 Mar 2024 02:34

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Author: S. Dhanjal
Author: I.R. Shatwell
Author: N.I. Zheludev ORCID iD

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