Optical properties of a nonlinear p-phenylenevinylene oligomer side chain polymer in films and fiber preforms

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4798, Issue , 2002, Pages 87-97

  Samoc, Anna ^a   Luther Davies, Barry ^a   Samoc, Marek ^a   Wong, Man Shing ^a,b   Krolikowska, R Maryla ^a   Martin, Therese M ^a   MacLeod, Craig J ^a   Freydank, Anke C ^a   Peng, Gang Ding ^c   Whitbread, Trevor ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coherence length; Forward degenerate four wave mixing; NLO side chain polymer; Optical fibre; PMMA; Poled films; Second harmonic generation

Indexed keywords

CHROMOPHORES; COPOLYMERS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPTICAL FIBERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION;

SIDE CHAIN POLYMERS;

OLIGOMERS;

EID: 0038078317     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.452120     Document Type: Conference Paper

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