Table of Contents

Linear and Nonlinear Polarizability: a Primer ; Second-Order Nonlinear Optical Processes in Molecules and Solids ; Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Effects in Molecular and Polymeric Materials ; Nonlinear Optical Properties of Molecules and Materials ; Electronic Hyperpolarizability and Chemical Structure ; Electrooptic Polymer Waveguide Devices: Status and Applications ; Waveguiding and Waveguide Applications of Nonlinear Organic Materials ; Nonlinear Optical Materials: The Great and Near Great ; Donor- and Acceptor-Substituted Organic and Organometallic Compounds: Second-Order Nonlinear Optical Properties ; Use of a Sulfonyl Group in Materials for Nonlinear Optical Materials: A Bifunctional Electron Acceptor ; Organic and Organometallic Compounds: Second-Order Molecular and Macroscopic Optical Nonlinearities ; Chemistry of Anomalous-Dispersion Phase-Matched Second Harmonic Generation ; Applications of Organic Second-Order Nonlinear Optical Materials ; Chromophore-Polymer Assemblies for Nonlinear Optical Materials: Routes to New Thin-Film Frequency-Doubling Materials ; Novel Covalently Functionalized Amorphous *y^2 Nonlinear Optical Polymer: Synthesis and Characterization ; Second-Order Nonlinear Optical Polyphosphazanes ; Molecular Design for Enhanced Electric Field Orientation of Second-Order Nonlinear Optical Chromophores ; Nonlinear Optical Chromophores in Photocrosslinked Matrices: Synthesis, Poling, and Second-Harmonic Generation ; Thermal Effects on Dopant Orientation in Poled, Doped Polymers: Use of Second Harmonic Generation ; Organic Polymers as Guided Wave Materials ; Observing High Second Harmonic Generation and Control of Molecular Alignment in One Dimension: Cyclobutenediones as a Promising New Acceptor for Nonlinear Optical Materials ; Strategy and Tactics in the Search for New Harmonic-Generating Crystals ; Development of New Nonlinear Optical Crystals in the Borate Series ; What is Materials Chemistry? ; Defect Properties and the Photorefractive Effect in Barium Titanate ; Defect Chemistry of Nonlinear Optical Oxide Crystals ; From Molecular to Supramolecular Nonlinear Optical Properties ; Control of Symmetry and Asymmetry in Hydrogen-Bonded Nitroaniline Materials ; Molecular Orbital Modeling of Monomeric Aggregates in Materials with Potentially Nonlinear Optical Properties ; Strategies for Design of Solids with Polar Arrangement ; Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals Designed For Electronic Nonlinear Optical Applications ; Model Polymers with Distyrylbenzene Segments for Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Properties ; Composites: Novel Materials for Second Harmonic Generation ; Clathrasils: New Materials for Nonlinear Optical Applications ; Inorganic Sol-Gel Glasses as Matrices for Nonlinear Optical Materials ; Intrazeolite Semiconductor Quantum Dots and Quantum Supralattices: New Materials for Nonlinear Optical Applications ; Small Semiconductor Particles: Preparation and Characterization ; Synthetic Approaches to Polymeric Nonlinear Optical Materials Based on Ferrocene Systems ; Transition Metal Acetylides for Nonlinear Optical Properties ; Third-Order Near-Resonance Nonlinearities in Dithiolenes and Rare Earth Metallocenes ; Nonlinear Optical Properties of Substituted Phthalocyanines ; Nonlinear Optical Properties of Substituted Polysilanes and Polygermanes ; Design of New Nonlinear Optic-Active Polymers: Use of Delocalized Polaronic or Bipolaronic Charge States ; New Polymeric Materials with Cubic Optical Nonlinearities: From Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization ; Polymers and an Unusual Molecular Crystal with Nonlinear Optical Properties ; Quadratic Electrooptic Effect in Small Molecules ; Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Properties of Organic Materials