Control of the polarization dependence of optically poled nonlinear polymer films

Optics Letters
S Brasselet, J Zyss

Abstract

We demonstrate the possibility of controlling the symmetry properties of photoinduced chi((2)) macroscopic susceptibility in polymer films. Ellipsometric adjustment of the write beams allows one to monitor the macroscopic chi((2)) symmetry from a dipolar to an octupolar configuration. Experimental results are in agreement with an irreducible spherical tensor-based model jointly applied to the molecular beta hyperpolarizability and field tensors. We found a purely octupolar polarization-independent photoinduced second-harmonic-generation response in a Dispersed Red 1-methyl methacrylate thin film. Such a configuration, as generated by an octupolar tensor write field tensor made up of counterclockwise circularly polarized omega and 2omega beams, is not within the reach of the classical electric-field poling technique.

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