Abstract
In this Letter, we study short-wavelength conical refraction (CR) via sum-frequency generation (SFG) in the femtosecond regime, a previously unaddressed topic. Based on biaxial crystal of whose dispersion of optical-axis orientation is negligible in near-IR, conventional femtosecond lasers at 800 and 1054 nm are transformed into CR beams, respectively. Femtosecond CR beams at 454 nm are generated via SFG with the near-IR CR beams. While the generated sum-frequency ring is typically incomplete, a full-ring distribution can be achieved by adopting Type-II SFG with a large phase mismatch. We find that the femtosecond sum-frequency ring under various phase-matching conditions evolves as typical CR beams.
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