Humidity effect on the decay of second-order nonlinearity in thermally poled fused silica

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 25, 2006, Pages 12334-12340

  Chen, Huai Yi ^a   Chang, Feng Fan ^b   Liao, Jia Cheng ^b   Chao, Shiuh ^b  

^a HUAFAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SURFACE PHENOMENA; VACUUM;

DECAY CURVES; DECAY PROCESSES; POLING CONDITIONS; SECOND ORDER NONLINEAR (SON);

FUSED SILICA;

EID: 33845410643     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.012334     Document Type: Article

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