Temperature-dependent kinetics of diffraction gratings formation in a polymer matrix doped with azobenzene chromophores: Monte Carlo simulations and experiment

Antoni C. Mitus; Grzegorz Pawlik; Andrzej Miniewicz; Anna Sobolewska; Francois Kajzar

doi:10.1117/12.559616

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15 October 2004 Temperature-dependent kinetics of diffraction gratings formation in a polymer matrix doped with azobenzene chromophores: Monte Carlo simulations and experiment

Antoni C. Mitus, Grzegorz Pawlik, Andrzej Miniewicz, Anna Sobolewska, Francois Kajzar

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Proceedings Volume 5517, Linear and Nonlinear Optics of Organic Materials IV; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.559616
Event: Optical Science and Technology, the SPIE 49th Annual Meeting, 2004, Denver, Colorado, United States

Abstract

We review, in a light of recent results, the relevance of Monte Carlo simulations of simple kinetic models of processes accompanying the recording and erasure of diffraction gratings in a polymer matrix doped with azobenzene chrompohores under the illumination with spatially modulated and linearly polarized light, in modelling the temperature-dependent processes observed in real degenerate two-wave mixing (DTWM) experiments. We comment on the perspectives of Monte Carlo based design of effective photonic devices operating on photochromic systems.

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Antoni C. Mitus, Grzegorz Pawlik, Andrzej Miniewicz, Anna Sobolewska, and Francois Kajzar "Temperature-dependent kinetics of diffraction gratings formation in a polymer matrix doped with azobenzene chromophores: Monte Carlo simulations and experiment", Proc. SPIE 5517, Linear and Nonlinear Optics of Organic Materials IV, (15 October 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.559616

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