But the traditional devices suffer from relatively small
nonlinear optical coefficients of conventional...
Heebner was cited for his «numerous innovations, achievements and technical leadership in high - energy laser systems and integrated optics including
nonlinear optical microresonators and ultrafast light deflectors.»
Unexpectedly, the crystals exhibited the largest
nonlinear optical response of any known crystal.
The work in Gail's group involves the design, development and application of linear and
nonlinear optical instrumentation for biomedical imaging, from the nanoscale to the whole organism.
Nonlinear optical effects are widely used by engineers and scientists to generate new light frequencies, perform laser diagnostics and advance quantum computing.
The metamaterials were created with
nonlinear optical response a million times as strong as traditional nonlinear materials and demonstrated frequency conversion in films 100 times as thin as human hair using light intensity comparable with that of a laser pointer.
Second harmonic light is
a nonlinear optical property in which photons with the same frequency interact with a nonlinear material to produce new photons at twice the energy and half the wavelength of the originals.
Due to the small extent of optical nonlinearity in naturally occurring materials, high light intensities and long propagation distances in nonlinear crystals are typically required to produce detectable
nonlinear optical effects.
«Our results show that nonlinear scattering theory can be a valuable tool in the design of nonlinear metamaterials not only for second - order but also higher order
nonlinear optical responses over a broad range of wavelengths,» O'Brien says.
«Researchers invent «meta mirror» to help advance
nonlinear optical systems.»
Scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have shown, using a recent theory for nonlinear light scattering when light passes through nanostructures, that it is possible to predict
the nonlinear optical properties of metamaterials.
This will require accurately predicting
nonlinear optical properties — meaning that interaction with light changes a material's properties, for example, light emerges from the material with a different frequency than when it entered.
The thin semiconductor layers confine electrons into desired quantum states, and gold nanocrosses resonate at input and output frequencies to enable
the the nonlinear optical response of the mirror.
For the past several decades, scientists have estimated
the nonlinear optical properties in natural crystals using a formulation known as «Miller's rule,» for the physicist Robert Miller who authored it.
In the developed light source,
a nonlinear optical crystal is irradiated with light from an ultraviolet laser.
Since interacting light beams with different colours pass through
a nonlinear optical material at different speeds, they can become «out of step» and the desired effect can be lost.
This eliminates the problem, and allows
nonlinear optical devices to be more versatile in the type of optical processing that can be achieved.
It is difficult to make a green laser directly, so
nonlinear optical crystals are used to convert infrared light to green.
The new multimodal imaging probe uses an ultrafast laser to create
nonlinear optical effects in tissue that can reveal cancer and other diseases.
«Phase mismatch is one reason why
nonlinear optical processes are not common in everyday life,» says Haim Suchowski, a member of Zhang's research group who along with Kevin O'Brien was the co-lead author of the Science paper.
«The removal of phase matching in
nonlinear optical metamaterials may lead to applications such as efficient multidirectional light emissions for novel light sources and the generation of entangled photons for quantum networking.»
However, not many materials show
nonlinear optical effects and, at the same time, exhibit sufficient light transmission in the infrared spectral range.
When these light sources were first made, nonlinear optics began to develop quickly, but even today not
all nonlinear optical effects are fully researched.
We hope that our work will further spark interest in studying and manipulating
nonlinear optical effects in novel nanoscale systems using unconventional excitation beams.»
Nonlinear optical processes provide the basis for important functionalities in photonics, such as frequency conversion of light, generation of ultrashort light pulses, as well as optical processing and manipulation.
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Nonlinear optical microscope equipped with cylindrical vector beams at the Nonlinear Optics Group, Laboratory of Photonics at TUT.
Not exact matches
These take a pulse stretched out by an
optical grating and send it into an artificial «
nonlinear» crystal, in which the energy of a second, «pump» beam can be channeled into the pulse.
To investigate the
nonlinear response of such plasmonic oligomers, the authors used a novel
optical microscopy technique, which is equipped with polarization - structured beams.
Compared to prior investigations, which contained
optical hysteresis in cavities containing
nonlinear absorptive and dispersive gain media, the operation principles as physical processes and operating mechanisms in transistor laser electro -
optical bistabilities are considerably different.
This
nonlinear scattering process can cause signal distortions in fibre communications and signal processing applications and is well known to limit the capacity of
optical fiber communications networks.
«The
optical nonlinear response that we have observed introduces a new paradigm in
nonlinear optics,» said De Leon, now a professor at Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico.
In a study led by Xiang Zhang, a faculty scientist with Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division, the research team used a unique
optical metamaterial with a refractive index of zero to generate «phase mismatch - free
nonlinear light,» meaning the generated light waves move through the material gaining strength in all directions.
Different phase velocities lead to destructive interference due to the lack of
optical momentum conservation between the photons, known as «phase mismatch» in the jargon of
nonlinear optics.
The paper is titled «Phase Mismatch - Free
Nonlinear Propagation in
Optical Zero - Index Materials.»
As well as providing an important step towards
optical computing, the team's achievement potentially solves a longstanding problem in
nonlinear optics.
It was the discovery of
optical second harmonic generation in 1961 that started modern
nonlinear optics.
He has made pioneering discoveries in plasmonic cloaking (caused by the interaction of light and metal nanostructures) and invisibility,
optical nanocircuits and nanoantennas, non-reciprocal devices, and giant
nonlinear response in
optical metamaterials.
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