ISSN:
0032-3888
Keywords:
Chemistry
;
Chemical Engineering
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
,
Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics
,
Physics
Notes:
Emerging guided-wave integrated optical technologies require suitable active devices and optical interconnects. Certain organic molecular materials possess the required optical nonlinearities for application in active devices. Glassy polymers, such as poly(methyl methacrylate), have been used to fabricate high optical quality passive structures. For application in integrated optics, requirements include high optical quality (low scattering and absorption losses), low dielectric constant, and suitable fabrication techniques.We describe the preparation and optical properties of a new material, class, poled polymer glasses, which combines the attractive properties of the optical nonlinearities of organic molecules and the optical quality of polymer glasses. These materials are formed by incorporating organic compounds possessing large optical nonlinearities into a host material lacking long-range order. The orientational order is imparted to the composite system by applying a strong electric field at a temperature above the glass transition temperature, where molecular motion is enhanced, thereby aligning the optically nonlinear dopant molecules. By cooling the material through the phase transition with the field still applied, the orientational order is frozen in, and the composite material possesses second-order nonlinear optical properties.
Additional Material:
2 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pen.760291713
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