First generation of conical waves through nonlinear Bragg diffraction enhanced by a novel type of transverse phase matching.

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.

Keywords: bessel beams; crystals

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