Fabrication of spatial modulated second order nonlinear structures and quasi-phase matched second harmonic generation in a poled azo-copolymer planar waveguide

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 7832-7841

  Lin, Jian Hung ^a   Lai, Ngoc Diep ^a   Chiu, Chau Han ^a   Lin, Chi Yuan ^a   Rieger, Georg W ^b   Young, Jeff F ^b   Chien, Forest Shih Sen ^c   Hsu, Chia Chen ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZO DYES; FABRICATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; PERIODIC STRUCTURES; PHASE MATCHING; PHOTONS; PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES; WAVEGUIDES;

DIRECT LASER WRITING; ELECTROSTATIC FORCE MICROSCOPES; FABRICATED STRUCTURES; FABRICATION TECHNIQUE; QUASI-PERIODIC STRUCTURES; RESONANT WAVELENGTHS; SECOND-ORDER SUSCEPTIBILITY; TWO PHOTON ABSORPTION;

HARMONIC GENERATION;

AZO COMPOUND; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OPTICS; OSCILLOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AZO COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OPTICS; OSCILLOMETRY; POLYMERS;

EID: 44649083837     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.007832     Document Type: Article

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