Paper 2.8: N. Bloembergen, W.K. Burns and M. Matsuoka, “Reflected third harmonic light generated by picosecond laser pulses,” Optics Comm. 1, 195–198, 1969.
Reprinted with permission of Elsevier, North Holland Publishing Co.
This note reports the first observation of reflected third harmonic light. It is, of course, a straightforward extension in the theoretical sense, but the high intensities required to observe this third order effect must be obtained from picosecond pulses because melting and damage of the surface would occur for longer pulses. Again, this note was followed by a full-length paper, “Third-harmonic generation in absorbing media of cubic or isotropic symmetry” (W.K. Burns and N. Bloembergen, Phys. Rev. 4B, 3437–3450, 1971).
M. Matsuoka was a postdoctoral fellow who returned to Japan to become a professor of physics, first at the University of Kyoto and later at the University of Tokyo. It was a pleasure to visit with him and his wife in both cities on several occasions. My graduate student Bill Burns later joined the Naval Research Laboratory near Washington, D.C.
