Linear and nonlinear optical properties of the organic crystal DSTMS

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2556-2561

  Mutter, Lukas ^a   Brunner, Fabian D J ^a   Yang, Zhou ^a   Jazbinšek, Mojca ^a   Günter, Peter ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TRANSPARENCY;

ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT; GROUP INDEX DISPERSION; OPTICAL TENSOR; ORGANIC CRYSTAL;

CRYSTALS;

EID: 36049010149     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.24.002556     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Ch. Bosshard, K. Sutter, Ph. Prêtre, J. Hulliger, M. Flörsheimer, P. Kaatz, and P. Günter, Organic Nonlinear Optical Materials (Gordon and Breach, 1996).
2. Y. Shi, C. Zhang, H. Zhang, J. H. Bechtel, L. R. Dalton, B. H. Robinson, and W. H. Steier, "Low (sub-1-volt) halfwave voltage polymeric electro-optic modulators achieved by controlling chromophore shape," Science 288, 119-122 (2000).
3. T. Kaino, B. Cai, and Y. Takayama, "Fabrication of DAST channel optical waveguides," Adv. Funct. Mater. 12, 599-603 (2002).
4. L. Mutter, M. Jazbinsek, M. Zgonik, U. Meier, Ch. Bosshard, and P. Günter, "Photobleaching and optical properties of organic crystal 4-N,N-dimethylamino- 4′-N′-methyl stilbazolium tosylate," J. Appl. Phys. 94, 1356-1361 (2003).
5. Ph. Dittrich, R. Bartlome, G. Montemezzani, and P. Günter, "Femtosecond laser ablation of DAST," Appl. Surf. Sci. 220, 88-95 (2003).
6. L. Mutter, A. Guarino, M. Jazbinsek, M. Zgonik, P. Günter, and M. Döbeli, "Ion implanted optical waveguides in nonlinear optical organic crystal," Opt. Express 15, 629-638 (2007).
7. M. Thakur, J. Xu, A. Bhowmik, and L. Zhou, "Single-pass thin-film electro-optic modulator based on an organic molecular salt," Appl. Phys. Lett. 74, 635-637 (1999).
8. W. Geis, R. Sinta, W. Mowers, S. J. Deneault, M. F. Marchant, K. E. Krohn, S. J. Spector, D. R. Calawa, and T. M. Lyszczarz, "Fabrication of crystalline organic waveguides with an exceptionally large electro-optic coefficient," Appl. Phys. Lett. 84, 3729-3731 (2004).
9. A. Schneider, M. Neis, M. Stillhart, B. Ruiz, R. U. A. Khan, and P. Günter, "Generation of terahertz pulses through optical rectification in organic DAST crystals: theory and experiment," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 23, 1822-1835 (2006).
10. U. Meier, M. Bösch, Ch. Bosshard, F. Pan, and P. Günter, "Parametric interactions in the organic salt 4-N,N-dimethylamino-4′-N′-methyl stilbazolium tosylate at telecommunication wavelengths," J. Appl. Phys. 83, 3486-3489 (1998).
11. S. Brahadeeswaran, S. Onduka, M. Takagi, Y. Takahashi, H. Adachi, M. Yoshimura, Y. Mori, and T. Sasaki, "Growth of high-quality DAST crystals for THz applications," J. Cryst. Growth 292, 441-444 (2006).
12. A. S. H. Hameed, W. C. Yu, C. Y. Tai, and C. W. Lan, "Effect of sodium toluene sulfonate on the nucleation, growth and characterization of DAST single crystals," J. Cryst. Growth 292, 510-514 (2006).
13. P. Lavéant, C. Medrano, B. Ruiz, and P. Günter, "Growth of nonlinear optical DAST crystals," Chimia 57, 349-351 (2003).
14. B. J. Coe, J. A. Harris, I. Asselberghs, K. Wostyn, K. Clays, A. Persoons, B. S. Brunschwig, S. J. Coles, T. Gelbrich, M. E. Light, M. B. Hursthouse, and K. Nakatani, "Quadratic optical nonlinearities of N-methyl and N-aryl pyridinium salts," Adv. Funct. Mater. 13, 347-357 (2003).
15. O. Kwon, B. Ruiz, A. Choubey, L. Mutter, A. Schneider, M. Jazbinsek, V. Gramlich, and P. Günter, "Organic nonlinear optical crystals based on configurationally locked polyene for melt growth," Chem. Mater. 18, 4049-4054 (2006).
16. T. Taniuchi, S. Ikeda, S. Okada, and H. Nakanishi, "Tunable sub-terahertz wave generation from an organic DAST crystal," Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., Part 1 44, 652-654 (2005).
17. Z. Yang, S. Aravazhi, A. Schneider, P. Seiler, M. Jazbinsek, and P. Günter, "Synthesis and crystal growth of stilbazolium derivatives for second-order nonlinear optics," Adv. Funct. Mater. 15, 1072-1076 (2005).
18. Z. Yang, L. Mutter, B. Ruiz, S. Aravazhi, M. Stillhart, M. Jazbinsek, V. Gramlich, and P. Günter, "Large-size and thin-film stilbazolium-salt single crystals for nonlinear optics and THz generation," Adv. Funct. Mater. (to be published).
19. E. Pan, M. S. Wong, Ch. Bosshard, and P. Günter, "Crystal growth and characterization of the organic salt 4-N,N-dimethylamino-4′- N′-methyl stilbazolium tosylate," Adv. Mater. (Weinheim, Ger.) 8, 592-595 (1996).
20. M. Born and E. Wolf, Principles of Optics, 7th ed. (Cambridge U. Press, 2002).
21. A. Schneider, F. D. J. Brunner, and P. Günter, "Determination of the refractive index over a wide wavelength range through time-delay measurements of femtosecond pulses," Opt. Commun. 275, 354-358 (2007).
22. J. Jerphagnon and S. Kurtz, "Maker fringes: a detailed comparison of theory and experiment for isotropic and uniaxial crystals," J. Appl. Phys. 41, 1667-1681 (1970).
23. Ch. Bosshard, R. Spreiter, L. Degiorgi, and P. Günter "Infrared and Raman spectroscopy of the organic crystal DAST: polarization dependence and contribution of molecular vibrations to the linear electro-optic effect," Phys. Rev. B 66, 205107 (2002).
24. B. Wyncke and F. Brehat, "Calculation of the effective second-order non-linear coefficients along the phase matching directions in acentric orthorhombic biaxial crystals," J. Phys. B 22, 363-376 (1989).