ANISOTROPY IN THE COMPLEX REFRACTIVE-INDEX AND THE 3RD-ORDER NONLINEAR-OPTICAL SUSCEPTIBILITY OF A STRETCH-ORIENTED FILM OF POLY(P-PHENYLENE VINYLENE)

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SWIATKIEWICZ, J
PRASAD, PN
KARASZ, FE
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[1] SUNY Buffalo, PHOTON RES LAB, BUFFALO, NY 14214 USA
[2] UNIV MASSACHUSETTS, DEPT POLYMER SCI & ENGN, AMHERST, MA 01003 USA
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10.1063/1.355264
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Birefringence, dichroism, and dispersion of the refractive indices of a free-standing film of poly(p-phenylene vinylene) (PPV) were measured by several techniques. The results are applied to an analysis of anisotropy of the third-order nonlinear optical susceptibility of this material. The anisotropy of both the linear and nonlinear susceptibilities is accounted for by the one-dimensional character of the lowest-energy electronic transition in PPV.
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