Abstract
A simple and highly sensitive fiber-optic autocollimation method for refractive-index dispersion measurement of solid-state and liquid bulk optical materials is presented. The method is based on the use of a double-pass multimode fiber Raman laser which generates widely tunable emission in a broadband (0.54-1.01 /spl mu/m) continuous spectral range at pumping with the second harmonic of a Q-switched Nd:YAG laser. The optical fiber is used in a specific multifunctional regime where, because of its micrometric core dimensions, it serves simultaneously as a point laser source for the formation of a collimated input emission, as a highly sensitive receiver of the autocollimation backreflectance, and as a medium for nonlinear frequency conversion and generation of a broad-band continuum spectrum. The experimental results obtained in the refractive-index dispersion measurements are fitted to the Sellmeier dispersion equation and used to determine the material dispersion and additional dispersive characteristics of the test optical material.
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