Chemistry and Physics Faculty Articles
Title
Highly Efficient Infrared Optical Nonlinearity of a Wide-Bandgap Chalcogenide Li2CdGeS4
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2014
Publication Title
Optics Letters
ISSN
0146-9592
Volume
39
Issue/No.
15
First Page
4579
Last Page
4582
Abstract
A quaternary chalcogenide Li2CdGeS4 is an excellent candidate for a nonlinear optical (NLO) material exhibiting wide transparency spanning from its fundamental band edge (3.15 eV) to the terahertz regime (23.5 μm). Strong optical nonlinearity of Li2CdGeS4 has been investigated over a wide spectral range 𝜆=1.064–3.3 μm based on second- and third-harmonic generation. The compound has a high damage threshold at λ=1.064 μm because of saturable three-photon absorption, and is phase-matchable for λ>1.5 μm with 𝜒(2)≃50 pm/V. It also exhibits strong third-order nonlinearity of 𝜒(3)≃105 pm2/V2. Li2CdGeS4 is promising for high-power NLO applications in the broad infrared spectrum.
NSUWorks Citation
Jang, J. I., Clark, D. J., Brant, J. A., Aitken, J. A., & Kim, Y. S. (2014). Highly Efficient Infrared Optical Nonlinearity of a Wide-Bandgap Chalcogenide Li2CdGeS4. Optics Letters, 39, (15), 4579 - 4582. https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.39.004579. Retrieved from https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cnso_chemphys_facarticles/166
ORCID ID
0000-0001-7825-8667
DOI
10.1364/OL.39.004579
Comments
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