Abbreviated Journal Title
Opt. Express
Keywords
5TH-ORDER; FILAMENTATION; AIR; Optics
Abstract
The recent interpretation of experiments on the nonlinear nonresonant birefringence induced in a weak probe beam by a high intensity pump beam in air and its constituents has stimulated interest in the nonresonant birefringence due to higher-order Kerr nonlinearities. Here a simple formalism is invoked to determine the non-resonant birefringence for higher-order Kerr coefficients. Some general relations between nonlinear coefficients with arbitrary frequency inputs are also derived for isotropic media. It is shown that the previous linear extrapolations for higher-order birefringence (based on literature values of n(2) and n(4)) are not strictly valid, although the errors introduced in the values of the reported higher-order Kerr coefficients are a few percent.
Journal Title
Optics Express
Volume
19
Issue/Number
7
Publication Date
1-1-2011
Document Type
Article
Language
English
First Page
6395
Last Page
6407
WOS Identifier
ISSN
1094-4087
Recommended Citation
Stegeman, George; Papazoglou, Dimitris G.; Boyd, Robert; and Tzortzakis, Stelios, "Nonlinear birefringence due to non-resonant, higher-order Kerr effect in isotropic media" (2011). Faculty Bibliography 2010s. 1947.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/facultybib2010/1947
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