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- SiO2-Al2O3-La2O3 glass - a superior medium for optical Kerr gating at moderate pump intensity
SiO2-Al2O3-La2O3 glass – a superior medium for optical Kerr gating at moderate pump intensity
in: Optical Materials Express (2016)
Novel SiO2-Al2O3-La2O3 (SAL) glass shows a switching efficiency > 70% for dual wavelengths optical Kerr gating (OKG) at 1 TW=cm2 peak intensity IP of the gate pulse. It is steadily increasing with IP, highest for the highest La2O3 content (24 mol%) and then superior to OKG media of large nonlinear refractive index n2 above a lower IP limit of 250 GW/cm2 (ZnS), 400 GW/cm2 (tellurite glass), and 500 GW/cm2 (N-SF56 glass). This superiority is attributed to negligible nonlinear counter processes in SAL glass which in the large n2 valued media makes h(IP) decrease in the high IP region.
DOI: 10.1364/OME.6.000125