Extended accordion polymers for optical modulation

Geoffrey A. Lindsay; Andrew P. Chafin; Richard A. Hollins; L. H. Merwin; John D. Stenger-Smith; Rena Y. Yee; Eric G. Nickel; Warren N. Herman

doi:10.1117/12.256186

1 November 1996 Extended accordion polymers for optical modulation

Geoffrey A. Lindsay, Andrew P. Chafin, Richard A. Hollins, L. H. Merwin, John D. Stenger-Smith, Rena Y. Yee, Eric G. Nickel, Warren N. Herman

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Proceedings Volume 2852, Nonlinear Optical Properties of Organic Materials IX; (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.256186
Event: SPIE's 1996 International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation, 1996, Denver, CO, United States

Abstract

Progress on second-order nonlinear optical polymers for high speed optical signal modulation is reported. New accordion polymers containing head-to-head backbone chromophores extended with a styryl-thienyl-vinyl linkage are described. The maximum absorption of the electronic transition (ground state yields excited state) for these polymers occurs at a wavelength of 494 nm. A corona-poled film of the ortho-xylyl bridged accordion polymer has a resonance-enhanced second- order nonlinear optical coefficient of 120 pm/V measured at 1.06 microns, and a glass transition temperature of about 187 degree(s)C. Along with linear polymer, polar cyclic dimers were formed during the polymerization. An extraction process was developed to remove the cyclic dimers from the polymer.

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Geoffrey A. Lindsay, Andrew P. Chafin, Richard A. Hollins, L. H. Merwin, John D. Stenger-Smith, Rena Y. Yee, Eric G. Nickel, and Warren N. Herman "Extended accordion polymers for optical modulation", Proc. SPIE 2852, Nonlinear Optical Properties of Organic Materials IX, (1 November 1996); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.256186

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