Molecular Engineering and the All-Optical Computer
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Physica Scripta
- Vol. T23 (T23) , 275-280
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-8949/1988/t23/051
Abstract
There has been much recent interest in certain organic materials for applications in the field of nonlinear optics, where they have been shown to have significant advantages over the inorganic compounds that are used at present. A brief review of nonlinear optical effects is given, along with a description of the role of the new organic materials, including their design, fabrication and characterisation. Applications of these materials in optical signal processing and optical computing are outlined.Keywords
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