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Nonlinear optical phenomena and devices

Maximum attainable efficiency of a cubic nonlinear response of matter

V. I. Kovalev

P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Abstract: It is shown that the efficiency of a cubic nonlinear optical response of matter, defined as the ratio of the cubic nonlinear susceptibility to its relaxation time, may reach ~10⁸ cm² J^–1 for electronic mechanisms of this response. This is 10³—10⁴ times higher than the value achieved so far. The conditions for attaining the maximum efficiency are found.

PACS: 42.65.An, 78.20.Bh

Received: 13.01.1997

 English version: Quantum Electronics, 1997, 27:8, 732–734

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