2-PHOTON ABSORPTION IN 4-BUTOXYCARBONYLMETHYLURETHANE POLYDIACETYLENE WAVE-GUIDES

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EHRLICH, JE
VALERA, JD
DARZI, A
WALKER, AC
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[1] Department of Physics, Heriot-Watt University
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10.1063/1.105829
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O59 [应用物理学];
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The strong confinement of light in planar-optical waveguides has been used to measure the two-photon absorption coefficient, beta, in 4-butoxycarbonylmethylurethane polydiacetylene (4BCMU) thin films. Prisms were used to couple the 30-60 ps pulses (up to 10-mu-J) from a mode-locked YAG laser (lambda = 1.06-mu-m) into the thin-film waveguides. A simple analytical theory is compared with the experimental results to give a value of beta almost-equal-to 4 X 10(-3) cm/MW.
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