Phase-matched second-harmonic blue-light generation in 2-docosylamino-5-nitropyridine Langmuir-Blodgett film waveguides

Manfred Kuepfer; M. Floersheimer; Christian Bosshard; H. Looser; Peter Guenter

doi:10.1117/12.139212

25 February 1993 Phase-matched second-harmonic blue-light generation in 2-docosylamino-5-nitropyridine Langmuir-Blodgett film waveguides

Manfred Kuepfer, M. Floersheimer, Christian Bosshard, H. Looser, Peter Guenter

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Proceedings Volume 1775, Nonlinear Optical Properties of Organic Materials V; (1993) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.139212
Event: San Diego '92, 1992, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

We report for the first time phase-matched second-harmonic generation by mode conversion in nonlinear optically active Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) film waveguides. Phase-matched frequency- doubling was observed in LB films of 2-docosylamino-5-nitropyridine (DCANP) by conversion of a fundamental TE₀-mode into a second-harmonic TE₁-mode. The experiments were done in four-layer optical waveguides. For DCANP this four-layer configuration improves the theoretical conversion efficiency more than 100 times compared to a conventional three-layer waveguide. In the preliminary experiment infrared to blue light conversion efficiencies up to 0.5% W^-1 cm^-2 (0.02% W^-1) were measured.

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Manfred Kuepfer, M. Floersheimer, Christian Bosshard, H. Looser, and Peter Guenter "Phase-matched second-harmonic blue-light generation in 2-docosylamino-5-nitropyridine Langmuir-Blodgett film waveguides", Proc. SPIE 1775, Nonlinear Optical Properties of Organic Materials V, (25 February 1993); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.139212

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