Third-order optical nonlinearities of poly(arylamino-phenylenevinylene) studied with femtosecond pulses

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4580, Issue , 2001, Pages 347-356

  Samoc, Anna ^a   Samoc, Marek ^a   Luther Davies, Barry ^a   Stockmann, Regina ^b   Tillmann, Hartwig ^b   Hoerhold, Hans Heinrich ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

B DFWM; Nonlinear optical polymer; Thin film; Third order susceptibility; Z scan

Indexed keywords

COPOLYMERS; ELASTIC MODULI; FOUR WAVE MIXING; LASER PULSES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONLINEAR OPTICS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THIN FILMS;

FEMTOSECOND PULSES; NONLINEAR OPTICAL POLYMERS; POLYARYLAMINO PHENYLENEVINYLENE; THIRD ORDER OPTICAL NONLINEARITIES; THIRD ORDER SUSCEPTIBILITY; Z SCAN MEASUREMENT;

VINYL RESINS;

EID: 0035779225     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.444983     Document Type: Article

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