Title

Temporal, spectral, and polarization dependence of the nonlinear optical response of carbon disulfide

Authors

Authors

M. Reichert; H. H. Hu; M. R. Ferdinandus; M. Seidel; P. Zhao; T. R. Ensley; D. Peceli; J. M. Reed; D. A. Fishman; S. Webster; D. J. Hagan;E. W. Van Stryland

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Optica

Keywords

REFRACTIVE-INDEX COEFFICIENT; ULTRAFAST RAMAN RESPONSES; SIMPLE LIQUIDS; Z-SCAN; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; MOLECULAR LIQUIDS; RETARDED RESPONSE; LIGHT-SCATTERING; CS2; KERR; Optics

Abstract

Carbon disulfide is the most popular material for applications of nonlinear optical (NLO) liquids, and is frequently used as a reference standard for NLO measurements. Although it has been the subject of many investigations, determination of the third-order optical nonlinearity of CS2 has been incomplete. This is in part because of several strong mechanisms for nonlinear refraction (NLR), leading to a complex pulse width dependence. We expand upon the recently developed beam deflection technique, which we apply, along with degenerate four-wave mixing and Z-scan, to quantitatively characterize (in detail) the NLO response of CS2, over a broad temporal range, spanning 6 orders of magnitude (similar to 32 fs to 17 ns). The third-order response function, consisting of both nearly instantaneous bound-electronic and noninstantaneous nuclear contributions, along with the polarization and wavelength dependence from 390 to 1550 nm, is extracted from these measurements. This paper provides a self-consistent, quantitative picture of the third-order NLO response of liquid CS2, establishing it as an accurate reference material over this broad temporal and spectral range. These results allow prediction of the outcome of any NLR experiment on CS2. (C) 2014 Optical Society of America

Journal Title

Optica

Volume

1

Issue/Number

6

Publication Date

1-1-2014

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

436

Last Page

445

WOS Identifier

WOS:000354864400014

ISSN

2334-2536

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