Abstract
An attractive and challenging approach to the construction of robust, thin film materials with large second-order optical nonlinearities is the covalent self-assembly of aligned arrays of high-(beta) molecular chromophores into multilayer superlattices. In this paper, we describe the dispersion of the large second harmonic generation (SHG) response in a self-assembled film containing stilbazolium chromophore building blocks. We also describe a new approach to fabricating SHG waveguides with such materials as well as preliminary confirmatory experimental results.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 282-289 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering |
Volume | 2285 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 23 1994 |
Event | Nonlinear Optical Properties of Organic Materials VII 1994 - San Diego, United States Duration: Jul 24 1994 → Jul 29 1994 |
Funding
(Grant DMR9120521) and by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (Contract 93-1-01 14). We thank Prof. Mark Ratner and Dr. David Kanis for helpful discussions. This research was supported by the NSF-MRL program through the Materials Research Center of NU
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Computer Science Applications
- Applied Mathematics
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering