Experimental and theoretical study of third-order harmonic generation in carbon nanotubes

Third-harmonic generation from solid samples of carbon nanotubes has been studied experimentally, using ultrashort pulses generated by a Cr:Forsterite laser, at a wavelength of 1250 nm. The results show an unusual nonperturbative behavior of the third-harmonic yield, for relatively low input laser fields, of ∼1010 W/cm2. This strong nonlinearity of the laser interaction with carbon nanoubes is also confirmed theoretically, in a full quantum-mechanical theory for harmonics generation from a single-walled carbon nanotube.

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