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Theoretical Calculation and Experimental Verification for Dislocation Reduction in Germanium Epitaxial Layers with Semicylindrical Voids on Silicon
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Determination of the third-order nonlinear optical coefficients of germanium through ellipse rotation
D E Watkins1, C R Phipps, S J Thomas
1Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, University of California, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA.
Optics Letters
|August 21, 2009
Abstract:
We describe the first reported direct determination of the 10 -Am nonlinear susceptibility in intrinsic Ge through time-resolved ellipse rotation. We found that X(3)(1111). = 2.5 X 10(-11) esu and X(3)(1221)= 1.3 X 10(-11) esu, significantly below previous estimates.
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