Frequency Doubling in Two-Component Self-Assembled Chromophoric Waveguide Structures | Yitzchaik Group

Frequency Doubling in Two-Component Self-Assembled Chromophoric Waveguide Structures

Citation:

P.M. Lundquist, Lin, W. , Zhou, H. , Hahn, D.N. , Yitzchaik, S. , Marks, T.J. , and Wong, G.K. . 1997. “Frequency Doubling In Two-Component Self-Assembled Chromophoric Waveguide Structures”. Applied Physics Letters, 70, Pp. 1941-1943. http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/apl/70/15/10.1063/1.118786.

Abstract:

Self-assembled chromophoric multilayers having large second-order optical nonlinearities can be combined with linear guiding materials such as polymethylmethacrylate to produce two-component frequency doublingwaveguides. This approach introduces considerable flexibility in optimizing the trade-off between the overlap of waveguide mode profiles and linear absorption. Extremely low waveguide propagation losses can be achieved because electric field poling and the accompanying poling-induced optical scattering are obviated.