Issue 45, 2018

Effect of annealing on nonlinear optical properties of 70% deuterated DKDP crystals at 355 nm

Abstract

Type II samples were obtained from the adjacent positions of the same crystal and annealed at different temperatures for 96 h. The nonlinear optical properties of these annealed samples, including nonlinear optical absorption (NLA) and nonlinear refraction (NLR), were measured at the third-harmonic-generation (THG) wavelength (355 nm) of a picosecond Nd:YAG laser by the Z-scan method. The NLA coefficient β and NLR index n were obtained by fitting the experimental data. According to the fitting result, the nonlinear absorption at 355 nm is identified as two-photon absorption and a nonlinear refraction index with a positive sign indicates the generation of a self-focusing effect. Our experiments showed that thermal annealing remarkably affected the nonlinear optical properties of 70% deuterated DKDP crystals. Both of the NLA coefficient β and NLR index n decrease with the increase of annealing temperature. At the optimum annealing temperature of 150 °C, the β and n of the type II THG sample were 3.5 × 10−2 cm GW−1 and 2.31 × 10−7 cm2 GW−1, which were only 25% and 45% that of the unannealed sample, respectively. The laser-induced damage threshold (LIDT) was measured at the THG wavelength (355 nm) of a nanosecond Nd:YAG laser by the R-on-1 method. The effect of annealing on the LIDT and on the nonlinear optical properties showed a similar trend, indicating that the process of crystal damage is related to NLA and NLR.

Graphical abstract: Effect of annealing on nonlinear optical properties of 70% deuterated DKDP crystals at 355 nm

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
20 Aug 2018
Accepted
16 Oct 2018
First published
16 Oct 2018

CrystEngComm, 2018,20, 7357-7363

Effect of annealing on nonlinear optical properties of 70% deuterated DKDP crystals at 355 nm

D. Cai, Y. Lian, X. Chai, L. Zhang, L. Yang and M. Xu, CrystEngComm, 2018, 20, 7357 DOI: 10.1039/C8CE01406J

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