Benzil: a promising third order nonlinear organic material

Hossin Abdeldayem; Angela Shields; William K. Witherow; Benjamin G. Penn; Donald O. Frazier

doi:10.1364/OAM.1993.MHH.7

OSA Annual Meeting
Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 1993),
paper MHH.7
•https://doi.org/10.1364/OAM.1993.MHH.7

Benzil: a promising third order nonlinear organic material

Hossin Abdeldayem, Angela Shields, William K. Witherow, Benjamin G. Penn, and Donald O. Frazier

OSA Annual Meeting 1993

Toronto Canada
3–8 October 1993
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Nonlinear Materials and Measurement (MHH)

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H. Abdeldayem, A. Shields, W. K. Witherow, B. G. Penn, and D. O. Frazier, "Benzil: a promising third order nonlinear organic material," in OSA Annual Meeting, Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 1993), paper MHH.7.

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Abstract

Although benzil (C6H5CO)² crystals have shown very low energy damage thresholds in producing second harmonic generation, thin films of benzil doped in Poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) were found to be highly durable in withstanding high power lasers.

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