Upconverted photobleaching and nonlinear effects of optical beam self-action in dye-doped polymer waveguides

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3417, Issue , 1998, Pages 256-267

  Sarkisov, Sergey ^a   Wilkosz, Aaron ^a   Curley, Michael ^a   Diggs, Darnell ^a   Banks, Curtis ^a   Clark, Ronald ^a   Penn, Benjamin ^a  

^a ALABAMA A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dark spatial soliton; Dye doped polymer waveguide; Nonlinear beam propagation; Upconverted photobleaching

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); DYES; GROUND STATE; HELIUM NEON LASERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES;

POLYMER WAVEGUIDES;

SOLITONS;

EID: 0032403823     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.323502     Document Type: Conference Paper

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