Femtosecond Z-scan and degenerate four-wave mixing measurements of real and imaginary parts of the third-order nonlinearity of soluble conjugated polymers

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 817-825

  Samoc, Marek ^a   Samoc, Anna ^a   Luther Davies, Barry ^a   Bao, Zhenan ^b,e   Yu, Loping ^b   Hsieh, Bing ^c   Scherf, Ullrich ^d  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c XEROX CORPORATION   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON ABSORPTION; FOUR WAVE MIXING; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PHOTONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

DEGENERATE FOUR WAVE MIXING; NONLINEAR REFRACTIVE INDEX; PHOTON LOSS; POLYMETHOXY ETHYL HEXYLOXY PHENYLENEVINYLENE; POLYPHENYLENE VINYLENES; THIRD ORDER NONLINEARITY;

OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0031998501     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.15.000817     Document Type: Article

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