Strength And Symmetry Of The Third-Order Nonlinearity During Poling Of Glass Waveguides (Vol 14, Pg 1294, 2002)

Negative thermal poling introduces second-order nonlinear effects into silica glass. The effects are studied using the charge separation model allowing for the third-order nonlinear effect to be anisotropic. The second-order nonlinear coefficient chi((2)) is found to be consistent with the results reported previously by Arentoft et aL (1999), Ren et al. (2002), and Marckmann et al. (2001) and the third-order nonlinear coefficient chi((3)) is found to be anisotropic but constant during poling.