Third harmonic autocorrelation and wave mixing in a thin film of poly(p-phenylenevinylene)

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 1787-1792

  Samoc, Marek ^a   Samoc, Anna ^a   Luther Davies, Barry ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; HARMONIC GENERATION; LASER PULSES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THIN FILMS;

FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL NONLINEARITIES IN ORGANIC MATERIALS; PHOTONIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; WAVEVECTORS;

ORGANIC POLYMERS;

EID: 2942711502     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.001787     Document Type: Article

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