DocumentCode
197339
Title
Polymethines with macroscopic optical nonlinearities suitable for all-optical signal processing
Author
Hales, Joel M. ; Hyeongeu Kim ; Barlow, Stephen ; Getmanenko, Yulia A. ; Yadong Zhang ; Giesking, Rebecca ; Risko, Chad ; Shahin, Shiva ; Kieu, Khan ; Norwood, Robert A. ; Peyghambarian, N. ; Bredas, Jean-Luc ; Marder, Seth R. ; Perry, Joseph W.
Author_Institution
Sch. of Chem. & Biochem., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA
fYear
2014
fDate
8-13 June 2014
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
2
Abstract
By preventing aggregation of polymethine molecules at high number density, we have developed organic materials with large third-order nonlinearities and low nonlinear absorption in the near-infrared thereby enabling demonstration of an all-optical signal processing application.
Keywords
aggregation; nonlinear optics; optical information processing; optical materials; organic compounds; all-optical signal processing application; large third-order nonlinearities; macroscopic optical nonlinearities; near-infrared range; nonlinear absorption; number density; organic materials; polymethine molecule aggregation; Absorption; Fiber nonlinear optics; Films; Optical fibers; Optical signal processing;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location
San Jose, CA
Type
conf
Filename
6990007
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