Limitation due to three-photon absorption on the useful spectral range for nonlinear optics in AlGaAs below half band gap

Jin U. Kang; Alain Villeneuve; Mansoor Sheik-Bahae; George I. Stegeman; Kadhair Al-Hemyari; J. Stewart Aitchison; Charles N. Ironside

doi:10.1063/1.112654

Limitation due to three-photon absorption on the useful spectral range for nonlinear optics in AlGaAs below half band gap

Jin U. Kang, Alain Villeneuve, Mansoor Sheik-Bahae, George I. Stegeman, Kadhair Al-Hemyari, J. Stewart Aitchison, Charles N. Ironside

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We report measurements of the spectral dispersion and the magnitude of three-photon absorption in Al_0.18Ga_0.82As for photon energies between one half and one third the band gap and show that a two-parabolic-band model is valid in this material. These results indicate that there is a limited spectral range below half the band gap in AlGaAs (and presumably all semiconductors) in which the bound electronic optical nonlinearity can be used without significant multiphoton absorption.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	147-149
Number of pages	3
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	65
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.112654
State	Published - 1994
Externally published	Yes

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