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Flexible delivery of Er:YAG radiation at 2.94 µm with negative curvature silica glass fibers:a new solution for minimally invasive surgical procedures
We present the delivery of high energy microsecond pulses through a hollow-core negative-curvature fiber at 2.94 µm. The energy densities delivered far exceed those required for biological tissue manipulation and are of the order of 2300 J/cm(2). Tissue ablation was demonstrated on hard and soft tissue in dry and aqueous conditions with no detrimental effects to the fiber or catastrophic damage to the end facets. The energy is guided in a well confined single mode allowing for a small and controllable focused spot delivered flexibly to the point of operation. Hence, a mechanically and chemically robust alternative to the existing Er:YAG delivery systems is proposed which paves the way for new routes for minimally invasive surgical laser procedures
Nonlinear optics of III-V semiconductors in the terahertz regime: an ab-initio study
We compute from first principles the infrared dispersion of the nonlinear
susceptibility in zincblende semiconductors. At terahertz
frequencies the nonlinear susceptibility depends not only on the purely
electronic response , but also on three other parameters
, and describing the contributions from ionic motion. They
relate to the TO Raman polarizability, the second-order displacement-induced
dielectric polarization, and the third-order lattice potential. Contrary to
previous theory, we find that mechanical anharmonicity () dominates over
electrical anharmonicity (), which is consistent with recent experiments
on GaAs. We predict that the sharp minimum in the intensity of second-harmonic
generation recently observed for GaAs between and
does not occur for several other III-V compounds.Comment: 9 pages, 3 figures; updated bibliograph
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