Third-harmonic generation in organic thin films as an alternative to degenerate four-wave mixing ultrafast optical image processing

Author

Fuentes-Hernandez, Canek ; Tseng, Shuo-Yen ; Chi, San-Hui ; Hales, Joel M. ; Perry, Joseph W. ; Marder, Seth R. ; Kippelen, B.

Author_Institution

Center for Org. Photonics & Electron., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA

fYear

2008

fDate

4-9 May 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We report on the use of noncollinear third-harmonic generation in thin organic films for ultrafast optical image processing using 80 fs pulses at 1550 nm and compare it with the traditional degenerate four-wave mixing approach.

Keywords

image processing; multiwave mixing; optical films; optical harmonic generation; optical information processing; optical materials; thin films; degenerate four-wave mixing; noncollinear optics; organic thin films; third-harmonic generation; time 80 fs; ultrafast optical image processing; wavelength 1550 nm; Biomedical optical imaging; Correlators; Four-wave mixing; Image processing; Nonlinear optics; Optical films; Optical harmonic generation; Optical mixing; Optical pulse generation; Ultrafast optics; (070.4550)Correlators; (070.7145)Ultrafast processing; (190.4710)Optical nonlinearities in organic materials;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-859-9

Type

conf

Filename

4571337