Non-adiabatic effects in third-harmonic generation: A coupled-equations study for Cl2

✍ Scribed by André D. Bandrauk; Nadia Gélinas

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 424 KB
• Volume: 129
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2614
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2614(86)80359-1

✦ Synopsis

A coupled-equations approach is used to calculate four-photon transition amplitudes in a third-harmonic generation process for the Cl1 molecule. It is shown that non-adiabatic interactions between Rydberg and valence states interfere with radiative interactions at high intensities (I> lo8 W/cm'), thus producing unusual intensity dependences in third-harmonic efficiencies.