Second-order nonlinear-optical processes in orientationally ordered materials: relationship between molecular and macroscopic properties
Second-order nonlinear-optical processes in orientationally ordered materials: relationship between molecular and macroscopic properties
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定向有序材料中的二阶非线性光学过程:分子和宏观性质之间的关系
DOI:
10.1364/josab.4.000968
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发表时间:
1987
影响因子:
1.9
通讯作者:
J. E. Sohn
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作者:
K. Singer;M. Kuzyk;J. E. Sohn
Liquid crystals and polymer glasses can be formed into orientationally ordered materials by raising the temperature of the material to a temperature at which molecular motion is greatly enhanced, applying an external aligning field, and then cooling with the field applied. The resulting material exhibits second-order nonlinear-optical effects. In this paper, the relationship between the molecular hyperpolarizability and the macroscopic susceptibility is presented. The susceptibility is seen to depend on the microscopic order parameters commonly associated with liquid crystals and is discussed in the limits of one-dimensional molecules and poled polymer glasses. Agreement is found between the theory and second-harmonic-generation measurements of polymer glasses. Results of electro-optic measurements are compared with second-harmonic-generation measurements that suggest that the electro-optic effect is mostly electronic in origin.