Organic electrooptical materials

Firestone, K.A., P. Reid, R. Lawson, S.H. Jang, and L.R. Dalton. 2004. Advances in organic electrooptic materials and processing. Inorg Chem Acta 357 3957-3966. 

FIGURE 6.11 The relationship of material and device parameters is shown for recently prepared organic electrooptic materials. 

Preliminary studies of the stability of organic electrooptic materials to high energy (gamma ray) radiation and particles (protons) carried out by Lockheed Martin (Palo Alto) and by researchers at the Air Force Research Laboratory (Wright Patterson Air Force Base) suggest that space application of polymeric electrooptic materials should proceed without problems. 

The main limitation to general deployment of organic electrooptic materials is that they have been optimized to this point in time for applications at telecommunication wavelengths. Inorganic materials such as lithium niobate are still the materials of choice for applications at visible wavelengths. Such inorganic modulators are likely going to continue to dominate the laboratory market for modulators to be used with research laser systems. 

Although the state-of-the-art organic electrooptics has advanced considerably during the past 5 years in terms of getting materials with large NLO responses and... 

The reader is referred elsewhere for reviews of organic photorefractive materials (75-86) and of photochromic and optomechanical materials (87). Electronic electrooptic chromophores (such as charge transfer azobenzenes) have frequently... 

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