The role of ferroelectric domain structure in second harmonic generation in random quadratic media

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 4012-4022

  Roppo, V ^a,b   Wang, W ^b,c   Kalinowski, K ^b   Kong, Y ^c   Cojocaru, C ^a   Trull, J ^a   Vilaseca, R ^a   Scalora, M ^d   Krolikowski, W ^b   Kivshar, Yu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d US Army Research Development and Engineering Command   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; FERROELECTRICITY; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR OPTICS;

DEGREE OF DISORDER; DISORDERED DOMAINS; EMISSION PATTERN; FERROELECTRIC DOMAIN STRUCTURE; FERROELECTRIC DOMAINS; NONLINEAR CRYSTALS; PHOTONIC STRUCTURE; QUADRATIC MEDIA; RANDOM DISTRIBUTION; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION;

HARMONIC GENERATION;

EID: 77749248901     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.004012     Document Type: Article

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