Polymeric materials for optical parametric mixing devices at telecommunications wavelengths

Polymer News

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 78-91

  Canva, Michael T G ^a   Jäger, Matthias L ^a   Stegeman, George I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bleaching; Chromophores; Modal dispersion phase matching MDPM; Optical propagation losses; Phase matching techniques; Poling; Polymers; Quadratic optical nonlinearities; Quasi phase matching QPM; Second harmonic generation SHG; Waveguides

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; LIGHT MODULATORS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION;

CASCADING; CHROMOPHORE; MODAL DISPERSION PHASE MATCHING; OPTICAL INDEX DISPERSION; PHASE MATCHING; POLING; QUADRATIC OPTICAL NONLINEARITY; TRANSPARENT POLYMERS;

POLYMERS;

EID: 0032027545     PISSN: 00323918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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