Nonlinear prism coupling of waveguides of the conjugated polymer MEH-PPV and their figures of merit for all-optical switching

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 895-901

  Koynov, Kaloian ^a   Goutev, Nicolai ^a,c   Fitrilawati, Fitri ^a,d   Bahtiar, Ayi ^a   Best, Andreas ^a   Bubeck, Christoph ^a   Hörhold, Hans Heinrich ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^d PADJADJARAN UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; LASER PULSES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PRISMS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

NONLINEAR WAVEGUIDE SPECTROSCOPY;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0011704515     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.19.000895     Document Type: Conference Paper

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