Generation of second-harmonic conical waves via nonlinear bragg diffraction

Phys Rev Lett. 2008 Mar 14;100(10):103902. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.103902. Epub 2008 Mar 12.

Abstract

We report on the observation of second-harmonic conical waves generated in a novel geometry of the transverse excitation of an annular periodically poled nonlinear photonic structure by a fundamental Gaussian beam. We show that the conical beams are formed as a result of the higher-order nonlinear Bragg diffraction involving two parametric processes in which an ordinary fundamental wave is converted simultaneously into ordinary and extraordinary polarized second harmonics.