Enhanced second-order nonlinearity by photoassisted poling of active hybrid sol-gel

Electronics Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 16, 2004, Pages 1013-1014

  Lu, D ^a   Zhang, H ^a   Gordon, J A ^a   Fallahi, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; IMAGE CODING; MODULATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; SIGNALING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

CHROMOPHORE MOLECULES; POLING PROCESS; QUARTZ CRYSTALS;

SOL-GELS;

EID: 4043094052     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20040602     Document Type: Article

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