Colleen Woodward with Ken Singer

Lasing and Nonlinear Optics in Polymeric 1-D Photonic Crystals

New techniques have been used to create high quality multilayer polymer films, forming one-dimensional photonic crystals. Films doped with active species will be used to study stimulated emission and other linear and nonlinear optical properties. These properties may include lasing, second harmonic generation, and linear and nonlinear transmission.