Title

3Rd-Order Nonlinearities In Organic Polymers And The Role Of Microscopic Cascading Of 2Nd-Order Hyperpolarizabilities

Authors

Authors

G. Assanto; D. Neher; G. I. Stegeman; W. E. Torruellas; M. B. Marques; W. H. G. Horsthuis;G. R. Mohlmann

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Keywords

Chain-Substituted Polymers; Wave-Guides; Crystallography

Abstract

We investigate the third-order nonlinearity of DANS and DAN2 side-chain polymers by tunable third-harmonic generation and nonlinear distributed coupling. The large third-order susceptibility can be interpreted in terms of microscopic cascading of second-order hyperpolarizabilities.

Journal Title

Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals

Volume

223

Publication Date

1-1-1992

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Language

English

First Page

33

Last Page

43

WOS Identifier

WOS:A1992JZ39900005

ISSN

0140-6566

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