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Four-wave-mixing interferometer

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We have developed a new method of determining in time both the real and the imaginary parts of third-order nonlinear-optical coefficients. In this method the phase-conjugated four-wave-mixing signal beam interferes with one of the transmitted pump beams. By comparing the interference pattern with that of a known reference, we are able to determine the real and the imaginary parts of the third-order optical nonlinearity for an unknown sample. The real and the imaginary parts can also be separated when one incoming beam is delayed. We apply this method to a bis-thienyl polyene molecule containing five conjugate double bonds and find that the hyperpolarizability is γ1111 = (−2.5 − 0.17i) × 10−30 esu.

© 1996 Optical Society of America

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