Electro-optic Pockels and Kerr effects for the determination of χ(2) and χ(3): Thin films of side-chain polymers containing dimethylaminonitrostilbene and of the polydiacetylene poly-(butoxycarbonylmethyleneurethane)

Applied Optics

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 1995, Pages 996-1002

  Herold, M ^a,b   Schmid, W ^a,b   Vogtmann, Th ^a,b   Fischer, R ^a,b   Haarer, D ^a,b   Schwoerer, M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b Experimentalphysik II ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Dimethylaminonitrostilbene; Electro optics; Kerr effect; Nonlinear optics; Pockels effect; Poly 4BCMU

Indexed keywords

ELLIPSOMETRY; LASER BEAMS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; POLYMERS; THIN FILMS;

POCKELS EFFECT; SIDE CHAIN POLYMERS;

ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS;

EID: 0029253155     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.34.000996     Document Type: Article

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