Disperse Red 1-doped solgel planar waveguides for nonlinear optical devices operating at telecommunications wavelengths

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1827-1831

  Le Duff, Anne Claire ^a   Canva, Michael ^a   Lévy, Yves ^a   Brun, Alain ^a   Ricci, Vincent ^b,e   Pliska, Tomas ^b,f   Meier, Joachim ^b   Stegeman, George I ^b   Chaput, Frédéric ^c   Boilot, Jean Pierre ^c   Toussaere, Eric ^d  

^a UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c LABORATOIRE DE PHYSIQUE DE LA MATIÈRE CONDENSÉE   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e Corning Inc ^*  (United States)

^f Nortel Neworks AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOPHORES; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SOL-GELS;

VIBRATION BANDS;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0141789820     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.18.001827     Document Type: Article

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