Abstract
We monitor the induced phase change produced by a cascaded χ(2):χ(2) process in KTP near the phase-matching angle on a picosecond 1.06-μm-wavelength beam using the Z-scan technique. This nonlinear refraction is observed to change sign as the crystal is rotated through the phase-match angle in accordance with theory. This theory predicts the maximum small-signal effective nonlinear refractive index of cm2/W (±1 × 10−11 esu) for an angle detuning of ±5° from phase match for this 1-mm-thick crystal with a measured deff of 3.1 pm/V For a fixed phase mismatch, this scales linearly with length and as deff2; however, for the maximum the nonlinear phase distortion becomes sublinear with irradiance for phase shifts near π/4.
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