Orientation Angle of Molecules at Hexadecane-Water Interface Studied with Total Internal Reflection Second Harmonic Generation

The orientation angle is an important parameter that reflects the structure of molecules at interfaces. In order to obtain this parameter, second order nonlinear spectroscopic techniques including second harmonic generation （SHG） and sum frequency generation-vibrational spec- troscopy （SFG-VS） have been successfully applied through analysis of the nonlinear signal from various polarizations. In some SHG and SFG-VS experiments, total internal reflection （TIR） configuration has been adopted to get enhanced signals. However, the reports on the detailed procedure of the polarization analysis and the calculation of the orientation angle of interracial molecules under TIR configuration are still very few. In this paper, we mea- sured the orientation angles of two molecules at the hexadecane-water interface under TIR and Non-TIR experimental configurations. The results measured from polarization analysis in TIR configuration consist with those obtained from Non-TIR configuration. This work demonstrates the feasibility and accuracy of polarization analysis in the determination of the orientation angle of molecules at the interfaces under TIR-SHG configuration.

Tailoring OAM spectrum of high-order harmonic generation driven by two mixed Laguerre–Gaussian beams with nonzero radial nodes

The extreme ultraviolet(XUV)light beam carrying orbital angular momentum(OAM)can be produced via high-order harmonic generation(HHG)due to the interaction of an intense vortex infrared laser and a gas medium.Here we show that the OAM spectrum of vortex HHG can be readily tailored by varying the radial node(from 0 to 2)in the driving laser consisting of two mixed Laguerre-Gaussian(LG)beams.We find that due to the change in spatial profile of HHG,the distribution range of the OAM spectrum can be broadened and its shape can be modified by increasing the radial node.We also show that the OAM mode range becomes much wider and its distribution shape becomes more symmetric when the harmonic order is increased from the plateau to the cutoff when the driving laser has the nonzero radial nodes.Through the map of coherence length and the evolution of harmonic field in the medium,we reveal that the favorable off-axis phase-matching conditions are greatly modified due to the change of intensity and phase distributions of driving laser with the radial node.We anticipate this work to stimulate some interests in generating the XUV vortex beam with tunable OAM spectrum through the gaseous HHG process achieved by manipulating the mode properties of the driving laser beam.

Angle Measurement Based on Second Harmonic Generation Using Artificial Neural Network

This article proposed an angle measurement method based on second harmonic generation(SHG)using an artifcial neural network(ANN).The method comprises three sequential parts:SHG spectrum collection,data preprocessing,and neural network training.First,the referenced angles and SHG spectrums are collected by the autocollimator and SHG-based angle sensor,respectively,for training.The mapping is learned by the trained ANN after completing the training process,which solves the inverse problem of obtaining the angle from the SHG spectrum.Then,the feasibility of the proposed method is verifed in multiple-peak Maker fringe and single-peak phase-matching areas,with an overall angle measurement range exceeding 20,000 arcseconds.The predicted angles by ANN are compared with the autocollimator to evaluate the measure-ment performance in all the angular ranges.Particularly,a sub-arcsecond level of accuracy and resolution is achieved in the phase-matching area.

Generation of elliptical isolated attosecond pulse from oriented H_(2)^(+)in a linearly polarized laser field

We investigate the ellipticity of the high-order harmonic generation from the oriented H_(2)^(+)exposed to a linearly polarized laser field by numerically solving the two-dimensional time-dependent Schrodinger equation(2 D TDSE).Numerical simulations show that the harmonic ellipticity is remarkably sensitive to the alignment angle.The harmonic spectrum is highly elliptically polarized at a specific alignment angleθ=30°,which is insensitive to the variation of the laser parameters.The position of the harmonic intensity minima indicates the high ellipticity,which can be attributed to the two-center interference effect.The high ellipticity can be explained by the phase difference of the harmonics.This result facilitates the synthesis of a highly elliptical isolated attosecond pulse with duration down to 65 as,which can be served as a powerful tool to explore the ultrafast dynamics of molecules and study chiral light-matter interaction.

Phase mismatching analysis of third-harmonic generation in BBO crystal

Phase mismatching for third-harmonic generation（THG） in barium metaborate（BBO） crystal is investigated in detail.Upon using BBO crystal in the TypeⅠ（oo→e） scheme,in the two independent planes （principal section of the crystal and the plane normal to principal section）,when the input second-harmonic beam deviates from the expected direction,phase mismatching occurs and the angle deviation produces different effects on the conversion efficiency.We numerically simulate these two cases of phase mismatching and identify the relation between the conversion efficiency and the deviation angle in the air.The computational results indicate that the phase matching tolerance in the principal section is 0.2°（in the air）,while the phase matching tolerance in the plane normal to principal section is 4.5°（in the air）.After conducting a lab experiment,the results agree perfectly with the computational results,indicating that the deviation angle in the principal section has a greater effect on the conversion efficiency.

The Fabrication and SHG Test of QPM Periodically Poled KTiOPO_4

The Quasi-phase-matching periodically poled flux-grown KTP by high electrical field method is researched. A 8×5×1mm3,∧=9.0μm PPKTP wafer is successfully fabricated for the first order QPM SHG. The interactive length of the sample is about 3mm. The SHG scheme of Nd: YAG at 1064nm tested that the output power of cw 532nm green light is 0.2mw at room temperature with fundamental power of 1.2w. The normalized conversion efficiency is about 0.09% (W·cm)-1.