Phase-matched second-harmonic generation in bulk azodye-doped polymers by all-optical poling

Abstract

We demonstrate phase-matched second-harmonic generation (SHG) in bulk azodye-doped polymethylmethacrylate using an all-optical poling technique. During the seeding process, samples were irradiated simultaneously by coherent superposition of the fundamental and the second-harmonic light of a nanosecond laser. The measurements for the dependence of SHG on the sample thickness show that the SHG signals increase with the increase in thickness of the samples, indicating that a χ(2) grating that satisfies the phase-matching condition for SHG could be optically induced in the polymer samples.