Single-pulse ultraviolet laser recording of periodically poled structures in polymer thin films

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 30, 2000, Pages 5632-5637

  Sugihara, Okihiro ^a   Nakanishi, Makoto ^a   Che, Yanlong ^a   Egami, Chikara ^a   Kawata, Yoshimasa ^a   Okamoto, Naomichi ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PLASTIC FILMS; THIN FILMS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

POLED STRUCTURES;

LASER RECORDING;

EID: 0011763264     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.005632     Document Type: Article

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