Title

Polarization-Dependent 4-Wave-Mixing And 2-Photon Coherence In Solids

Authors

Authors

M. Sheikbahae; J. Wang; E. J. Cantosaid; R. Desalvo; D. J. Hagan;E. W. Vanstryland

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Abbreviated Journal Title

IEEE J. Quantum Electron.

Keywords

NONLINEARITIES; SEMICONDUCTORS; Engineering, Electrical & Electronic; Optics; Physics, Applied

Abstract

Polarization dependent degenerate-four-wave-mixing experiments on semiconductors (ZnSe, CdS) and dielectrics (NaCl, PbF2) reveal the essential mechanisms of the bound-electronic chi((3)). We show, for the first time, that the observed anomalous dispersion of the polarization dependent phase-conjugate reflectivity can be explained using a simple 3-band model, The near vanishing reflectivity in the two-photon coherence geometry is shown to be a consequence of the interference between transitions originating from heavy- and Light-hole valence bands, We also present measurements on the polarization dichroism of the nonlinear refractive index (n(2)), in good agreement with this simple theory.

Journal Title

Ieee Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volume

31

Issue/Number

7

Publication Date

1-1-1995

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

1270

Last Page

1273

WOS Identifier

WOS:A1995RF21900013

ISSN

0018-9197

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