Ellipsometric measurements of poling birefringence, the pockels effect, and the kerr effect in high-performance photorefractive polymer composites

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 14, 1996, Pages 2346-2354

  Kippelen, Sandalphon B ^a   Meerholz, K ^a,b   Peyghambarian, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ellipsometry; Molecular constants; Nonlinear optics; Photorefractive polymers

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BIREFRINGENCE; DIFFRACTION; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; ORGANIC POLYMERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

CHROMOPHORES; HYPERPOLARIZABILITY; MOLECULAR CONSTANTS; PHOTOREFRACTIVE POLYMERS; PHOTOREFRACTIVITY; POCKELS EFFECT;

ELLIPSOMETRY;

EID: 0030147031     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.002346     Document Type: Article

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