Second-order nonlinear optical properties of saccharide materials

Grant Bourhill; Kamjou Mansour; Kelly J. Perry; Lutfur R. Khundkar; Edward T. Sleva; Roger Kern; Joseph W. Perry; Ian D. Williams; Stewart K. Kurtz

doi:10.1117/12.144052

27 April 1993 Second-order nonlinear optical properties of saccharide materials

Grant Bourhill, Kamjou Mansour, Kelly J. Perry, Lutfur R. Khundkar, Edward T. Sleva, Roger Kern, Joseph W. Perry, Ian D. Williams, Stewart K. Kurtz

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Proceedings Volume 1853, Organic and Biological Optoelectronics; (1993) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.144052
Event: OE/LASE'93: Optics, Electro-Optics, and Laser Applications in Scienceand Engineering, 1993, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Abstract

Saccharide materials are potential candidates for frequency conversion applications. In addition to being chiral, which ensures crystallization in a space-group relevant for three-wave mixing processes, they generally possess useful physical and optical properties. We have examined the powder second harmonic generation efficiencies of both saturated saccharides and sugars with simple polar (pi) -functionalities. Powder efficiencies of up to 5 times that of sucrose were observed for simple saturated sugars, whereas values of 18 times sucrose (or 0.45 X urea) were observed for unsaturated saccharide derivatives. We have noted that for both classes of material, there is a tendency for more efficient nonlinear compounds to reside in a monoclinic rather than an orthorhombic space-group. We have also noted that there appears to be a correlation between the phase-matching potential and the crystal symmetry.

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Grant Bourhill, Kamjou Mansour, Kelly J. Perry, Lutfur R. Khundkar, Edward T. Sleva, Roger Kern, Joseph W. Perry, Ian D. Williams, and Stewart K. Kurtz "Second-order nonlinear optical properties of saccharide materials", Proc. SPIE 1853, Organic and Biological Optoelectronics, (27 April 1993); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.144052

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