LOW VALUES OF THE TENSOR COMPONENTS OF THE NONRESONANT OPTICAL-ABSORPTION IN THE MOLECULAR NONLINEAR-OPTICAL SINGLE-CRYSTAL (-)2-ALPHA-(METHYLBENZYLAMINO)-5-NITROPYRIDINE

Authors
KERKOC P BAILEY RT CRUICKSHANK FR PUGH D SHERWOOD JN
Citation
P. Kerkoc et al., LOW VALUES OF THE TENSOR COMPONENTS OF THE NONRESONANT OPTICAL-ABSORPTION IN THE MOLECULAR NONLINEAR-OPTICAL SINGLE-CRYSTAL (-)2-ALPHA-(METHYLBENZYLAMINO)-5-NITROPYRIDINE, Optics communications, 132(5-6), 1996, pp. 484-488
Citations number
26
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Optics communications → ACNP
ISSN journal
00304018
Volume
132
Issue
5-6
Year of publication
1996
Pages
484 - 488
Database
ISI
SICI code
0030-4018(1996)132:5-6<484:LVOTTC>2.0.ZU;2-C
Abstract
Low absorption coefficients for the Light polarized along the crystall ographic a, b and c axes and an additional direction bisecting the an gle between the a and c axes of (-)2-alpha-(methylbenzylamino)-5-nitro pyridine (MBANP) single crystals were measured at the wavelengths 1064 nm and 532 nm. They were found to be in the range from 0.022 cm(-1) 0 .061 cm(-1) i.e., of the same order of magnitude as some widely used c rystals in the nonlinear optics. From these data all four absorption i ndex coefficients of this crystal were determined.