Third-order nonlinear optical organic materials for photonic switching

Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 213-219

  Luther Davies, Barry ^a   Samoc, Marek ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

BCMU (butoxycarbonyl)methylurethanyl; DFWM degenerate four wave mixing; PPV poly(p phenylenevinylene); PTS poly(p tolueneosulfonyl diacetylene); THG third harmonic generation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039462295     PISSN: 13590286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1359-0286(97)80068-x     Document Type: Article

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