Title
Beam instabilities in second harmonic generation
Abstract
A new class of quadratic solitons occurs during parametric interactions such as second harmonic generation. The solitons consist of an admixture of the fundamental and harmonic beams, one fundamental for Type I phase-matching and two orthogonally polarized fundamentals for Type II. Modulational instabilities or beam break-up occurs in bulk media, leading in certain cases to periodic patterns of spatial solitons. It has been demonstrated that when two soliton beams interact, they fuse, repulse one another or exchange energy on propagation, depending on the relative phase between the solitons.
Publication Date
12-1-1997
Publication Title
Conference Proceedings - Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting-LEOS
Volume
2
Number of Pages
261-262
Document Type
Article; Proceedings Paper
Personal Identifier
scopus
Copyright Status
Unknown
Socpus ID
0031338005 (Scopus)
Source API URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0031338005
STARS Citation
Stegeman, George I.; Fuerst, Russell; and Baek, Yongsoon, "Beam instabilities in second harmonic generation" (1997). Scopus Export 1990s. 3122.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus1990/3122