Comparative study of nonlinear-optical polymers for guided-wave second-harmonic generation at telecommunication wavelengths

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1554-1564

  Pliška, Tomáš ^a,c   Cho, Wook Rae ^a   Meier, Joachim ^a   Le Duff, Anne Claire ^a,d   Ricci, Vincent ^a   Otomo, Akira ^a,e   Canva, Michael ^a,d   Stegeman, George I ^a   Raimond, Paul ^b   Kajzar, François ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b DIF   (France)

^c JDS UNIPHASE   (United States)

^d UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

^e Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; POLYMERS; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

NONLINEAR OPTICAL MATERIALS;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0141748482     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.17.001554     Document Type: Article

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