Poly(p-phenylenevinylene) derivatives: New promising materials for nonlinear all-optical waveguide switching

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 2250-2262

  Bader, Mark Andreas ^a   Marowsky, Gerd ^a   Bahtiar, Ayi ^b   Koynov, Kaloian ^b   Bubeck, Christoph ^b   Tillmann, Hartwig ^c   Hörhold, Hans Heinrich ^c   Pereira, Suresh ^d  

^a LASER LABORATORIUM GÖTTINGEN E V   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; OPTICAL FILMS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL SWITCHES; WAVEGUIDES;

PHOTONIC BANDGAP;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0141786994     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.19.002250     Document Type: Article

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