Acoustic wave determination by degenerate four-wave mixing using ultrafast laser pulses

Huimin Liu; Azizz Mafould; Armando Yance

doi:10.1117/12.386728

22 May 2000 Acoustic wave determination by degenerate four-wave mixing using ultrafast laser pulses

Huimin Liu, Azizz Mafould, Armando Yance

Proceedings Volume 4072, Fourth International Conference on Vibration Measurements by Laser Techniques: Advances and Applications; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.386728
Event: 4th International Conference on Vibration Measurement by Laser Techniques, 2000, Ancona, Italy

Abstract

Using degenerate four-wave-mixing technique the acoustic wave produced in transparent microstructured optical materials can be determined. The light source used in this paper was a mode-locked, Q-switched Nd:YAG laser operated at 532 nm with pulse width of approximately 20 ps. The laser beam was split into three pulses. By spatially overlapping inside the sample with an angle in a backward propagating scheme. A laser induced periodic interference pattern which serves as grating was formed in the sample. The third, `probe', beam incident on the region in the direction satisfied by the Bragg condition. The diffracted signal brings the information of the produced acoustic wave. The incident laser pulses coupled to the acoustic field of the material through effects of thermally induced acoustic strain and electrostrictive coupling. This results in a generation of two counterpropagating ultrasonic acoustic waves in the grating wave vector direction, which is so- called the Laser Induced Phonon Spectroscopy.

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Huimin Liu, Azizz Mafould, and Armando Yance "Acoustic wave determination by degenerate four-wave mixing using ultrafast laser pulses", Proc. SPIE 4072, Fourth International Conference on Vibration Measurements by Laser Techniques: Advances and Applications, (22 May 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.386728

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