Spatiotemporal three-dimensional mapping of nonlinear X waves

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2004 Feb;69(2 Pt 2):026607. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.69.026607. Epub 2004 Feb 26.

Abstract

The spatiotemporal intensity profile of a 100-fs wave packet at the output of a X2 crystal, tuned for mismatched second-harmonic generation, is probed via sum-frequency generation with a compressed, 20-fs pulse, revealing the appearance of an X-type wave shape.