Discrimination between two distinct nonlinear effects by polarization-resolved Z-scan measurements

We investigated how the Z-scan technique can be explored to distinguish two types of nonlinear refractive effects by employing two distinct laser polarizations. It is possible that pure electronic, molecular orientation and thermal nonlinear effects may occur simultaneously during light-matter inter...

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Veröffentlicht in:Optics express 2020-02, Vol.28 (3), p.3352-3360
Hauptverfasser: Melhado, Marlon S., de Souza, Tiago G. B., Zilio, Sergio C., Barbano, Emerson C., Misoguti, Lino
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Zusammenfassung:We investigated how the Z-scan technique can be explored to distinguish two types of nonlinear refractive effects by employing two distinct laser polarizations. It is possible that pure electronic, molecular orientation and thermal nonlinear effects may occur simultaneously during light-matter interaction. We found a way to discriminate and quantify two distinct nonlinear processes from Z-scan signals measured with linear and circular polarizations. This paper provides analytical equations for nonlinear refractions and in order to test them, we carried out measurements in CS2 and in a rhodamine-B solution, where electronic and orientational, and electronic and thermal nonlinearities mixing, respectively, are present. (C) 2020 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement
ISSN:1094-4087
1094-4087
DOI:10.1364/OE.378270