A novel approach to achieve highly efficient nonlinear optical polymers from guest-host systems

Tae-Dong Kim; Jae-Wook Kang; Jingdong Luo; Baoquan Chen; Jae-Won Ka; Sei-Hum Jang; Neil Tucker; Zhengwei Shi; Marnie Haller; Steven Hau; Alex K.-Y. Jen

doi:10.1117/12.621324

30 August 2005 A novel approach to achieve highly efficient nonlinear optical polymers from guest-host systems

Tae-Dong Kim, Jae-Wook Kang, Jingdong Luo, Baoquan Chen, Jae-Won Ka, Sei-Hum Jang, Neil Tucker, Zhengwei Shi, Marnie Haller, Steven Hau, Alex K.-Y. Jen

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Proceedings Volume 5935, Linear and Nonlinear Optics of Organic Materials V; 593505 (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.621324
Event: Optics and Photonics 2005, 2005, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

A series of side-chain electrooptic (E-O) polymers have been prepared by Diels-Alder reaction in a solid state and characterized for their nonlinear optical properties. A synthesized chromophore were easily attached to a pendent anthracenyl moiety functionalized on the poly(methylmethacrylate-co-anthrylmethylmethacrylate) thermally in the bulk films during the poling process without compromising E-O performances. We have also controlled a chromophore concentration to determine its critical loading density at which chromophore-chromophore electrostatic interaction occurs in the polymer matrix. The highest E-O coefficient was 110 pm/V for the 34 wt% of the doped chromophore in the polymer at the wavelength of 1.3 μm. A high loading density of chromophore was obtained without observing a severe phase separation in the polymer matrix by an AFM morphology study. This novel approach provides to demonstrate a strategy for developing highly efficient E-O materials with the full potential of a chromophore.

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Tae-Dong Kim, Jae-Wook Kang, Jingdong Luo, Baoquan Chen, Jae-Won Ka, Sei-Hum Jang, Neil Tucker, Zhengwei Shi, Marnie Haller, Steven Hau, and Alex K.-Y. Jen "A novel approach to achieve highly efficient nonlinear optical polymers from guest-host systems", Proc. SPIE 5935, Linear and Nonlinear Optics of Organic Materials V, 593505 (30 August 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.621324

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