Ultrafast optical Kerr effect in CS2 at 10.6 μm

Abstract

This letter reports experiments that used a mode-locked TEA CO2 laser to modulate a cw He–Ne laser. This technique uses the optical Kerr effect in CS2. The optical Kerr coefficient, n2, at 10.6 μm is estimated from our data to be approximately 10−20 m2/V2.