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Self-induced transparency and self-induced darkening with a nonlinear frequency-doubling polarization interferometer

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It is shown that the system polarizer-frequency-doubling crystal(s)-analyzer has a nonlinear transmission for the fundamental wave. The intensity-dependent transmission of this device is due to the nonlinear phase shift that the fundamental beam obtains in the nonlinear crystal as a result of cascaded second-order processes. Depending on the mutual orientation of the polarizer and the analyzer such effects as self-induced transparency and self-induced darkening can be realized.

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  1. Department of Physics, University of Sofia, BG-1164, Sofia, Bulgaria

    S. Saltiel, K. Koynov & I. Buchvarov

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Saltiel, S., Koynov, K. & Buchvarov, I. Self-induced transparency and self-induced darkening with a nonlinear frequency-doubling polarization interferometer. Appl. Phys. B 63, 371–374 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01828740

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