Nonlinear Bragg mirror made from a silicon phthalocyanine/methyl methacrylate copolymer

R. A. Norwood; D. Swanson; R. Spitzer; J. R. Sounik; D. Holcomb; G. Hansen; J. Popolo

doi:10.1364/OL.17.000577

Nonlinear Bragg mirror made from a silicon phthalocyanine/methyl methacrylate copolymer

R. A. Norwood, D. Swanson, R. Spitzer, J. R. Sounik, D. Holcomb, G. Hansen, J. Popolo

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A nonlinear Bragg mirror based on saturably absorbing nonlinear-optical polymers is proposed and demonstrated. The saturable absorber is a copolymer of silicon phthalocyanine with methyl methacrylate, which exhibits its largest nonlinear absorption near 670 nm. A 23-layer stack was made by spin coating, with polymethyl methacrylate as the low-index layer, and the linear-optical performance was found to agree reasonably well with predictions based on a modified two-level model of the optical properties of the copolymer. Optical limiting at an intensity of 5-10 MW/cm² was demonstrated for 6-ns pulses at a wavelength of 688 nm.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	577-579
Number of pages	3
Journal	Optics letters
Volume	17
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.17.000577
State	Published - Apr 15 1992
Externally published	Yes

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