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Optica Publishing Group
  • Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 14,
  • Issue 12,
  • pp. 121902-
  • (2016)

Electro-optically tunable self-focusing and self-defocusing in KTP crystals by a cascaded second-order process

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Abstract

We report the transformation of a linear electro-optically tunable non-phase-matched second-order nonlinear process into a cascaded second-order nonlinear process in a bulk KTP crystal to generate the effect of electro-optically tunable Kerr-type nonlinearity. By applying an electric field on the x–y plane, parallel to the z-axis of the crystal, phase mismatch is created, which introduces a nonlinear phase shift between the launched and reconverted fundamental waves from the generated second harmonic wave. Due to the nonuniform radial intensity distribution of a Gaussian beam, a curvature will be introduced into the fundamental wavefront, which focuses or defocuses the incident beam while propagating through the crystal.

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