Improved attenuated-total-reflection technique for measuring the electro-optic coefficients of nonlinear optical polymers

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 805-808

  Jiang, Yi ^a   Cao, Zhuangqi ^a   Shen, Qishun ^a   Dou, Xiaoming ^a   Chen, Yingli ^a   Ozaki, Yukihiro ^b  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KWANSEI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLYMERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

POLED POLYMERS;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0034385558     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.17.000805     Document Type: Article

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