Laser third harmonic generation in organic dye vapors
Annotatsiya
The phenomenon of nonlinear optical conversion of a YAG:Nd laser radiation frequency from IR to UV spectral range in naphthalene vapors was studied. The optimum temperature of naphthalene vapors (170°C) was found at which the pumping radiation is synchronously converted into the third harmonic emission. A mechanism of the third harmonic generation is proposed based on the difference frequency generation in a six-photon process. The efficiency of conversion to the third harmonic generation varied within 10−10–10−8, depending on the pumping intensity and cell temperature. Nonlinear optical characteristics of naphthalene vapors were calculated for the generation using nonlinearities of the third and fifth order.