Novel optical composites: Second-order nonlinear optical and polymeric photorefractive materials for optical information storage and processing applications

Optical Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 443-451

  Burzynski, Ryszard ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Casstevens, Martin K ^a,e,g,h   Zhang, Yue ^a,c,e,f,i,j   Ghosal, Saswati ^a,c,e,k,l  

^a Laser Photonics Technology Inc   (United States)

^b SPIE ^*

^c ACS

^d WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^e UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^f Laser Photonics Technology

^g HAMILTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^h Laser Photonics Technology

ⁱ PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^j ROI Technology   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF KALYANI   (India)

^l UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

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Author keywords

Composites; Nonlinear optics; Optical storage; Ormosil; Photorafractivity; Second harmonic generation; Sol gel

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000546475     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.600913     Document Type: Article

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