Novel electro-optic molecular cocrystals with ideal chromophoric orientation and large second-order optical nonlinearities

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 426-431

  Wong, Man Shing ^a   Pan, Feng ^a   Bösch, Martin ^a   Spreiter, Rolf ^a   Bosshard, Christian ^a   Günter, Peter ^a   Gramlich, Volker ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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EID: 0001151689     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.15.000426     Document Type: Article

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