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Effective lensing effects in parametric frequency conversion

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Abstract

We show that, in the high wave-vector-mismatch (cascading) limit, the well-known paraxial description of parametric frequency conversion in quadratic media entails effective lensing effects, which can have a self-focusing or a self-defocusing nature, critically depending on the mismatch sign, the selected wave, and the launching condition (second-harmonic generation or downconversion). Numerical and experimental evidence of this behavior is reported.

© 2002 Optical Society of America

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