Abstract

Second harmonic generation (SHG) in poled fused silica, which was first reported by Myers, Mukherjee and Brueck⁽¹⁾ in 1991, has increased in importance because of a multitude of potential device applications. Such applications include electro-optic switching, frequency doubling crystals, parametric amplification, parametric oscillation, and linear electro-optic modulation/frequency conversion which can be monolithically integrated into optical fibers and planar integrated circuit geometries. Because of these potential applications, much work has been done to understand the phenomenon of SHG in poled fused silica.

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