Degenerate four-wave mixing measurements of the third-order nonlinearity of poly(aryleneethynylenes) and their model substances

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2645-2649

  Hotzel, Mario ^a   Urban, Sabine ^b   Egbe, Daniel Ayuk Mbi ^a   Pautzsch, Thomas ^a   Klemm, Elisabeth ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b Inst fur Phys Hochtech eV Jena   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOUR WAVE MIXING; FUSED SILICA; THIN FILMS;

PICOSECOND TIME RESOLUTION;

ORGANIC POLYMERS;

EID: 0141453128     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.19.002645     Document Type: Article

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