1 February 1986 Highly Efficient Single-Crystalline Organic Thin Films For Quadratic Nonlinear Optics
I. Ledoux, D. Josse, P. Vidakovic, J. Zyss
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Abstract
Single-crystalline thin films of a new highly optically nonlinear organic material, N-(4-nitrophenyl)-(L)-prolinol (NPP), have been grown between transparent silica plates. Their calibrated thickness is 11 µm, but they can be made thinner or thicker with single-crystalline areas of the order of 10 mm2. Transverse second-harmonic generation measurements have evidenced the high efficiency of the material and allowed for the measurement of both the d21 and d22 coefficients. The value d21 = 200 x 10-9 esu is, to our knowledge, the highest phase-matchable coefficient ever reported for a material with transparency extending from 0.5 to 2 µm. The configuration explored here can be readily used, after minor modifications. for waveauided nonlinear interactions.
I. Ledoux, D. Josse, P. Vidakovic, and J. Zyss "Highly Efficient Single-Crystalline Organic Thin Films For Quadratic Nonlinear Optics," Optical Engineering 25(2), 252202 (1 February 1986). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.7973806
Published: 1 February 1986
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KEYWORDS
Nonlinear optics

Thin films

Calibration

Organic materials

Second-harmonic generation

Silica

Transparency

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