Organic nonlinear optical materials

Bosshard Ch, Sutter K, Pretre Ph, Hulliger J, Florsheimer M, Kaatz P, Gunter P (1995) Organic Nonlinear Optical Materials, Gordon and Breach Science, Basel 1995... 

Bosshard, Ch. Sutter, K. Pretre, Ph. Hulliger, J. Florsheimer, M. Kaatz, P. Gunter, P. Organic Nonlinear Optical Materials (Advances in Nonlinear Optics, Vol. 1) Gordon Breach Amsterdam, 1995. 

Characterization Techniques and Tabulations for Organic Nonlinear Optical Materials, edited by Mark G. Kuzyk and Carl W. Dirk... 

Figure 1. Schematic representation of the major themes in the history of research on organic nonlinear optical materials.

Figure 2. Tradeoffs between polymer and crystal organic nonlinear optical materials. EO refers to applications for electro-optic waveguide devices such as modulators and switches. SHG refers to applications for frequency doubling of moderate and low power laser sources. A + indicates favored, - indicates disfavored, 0 indicates neither favored nor disfavored, and x indicates not relevant.

The device performance of any application in the real world has to be guaranteed for a certain time without or only minor degradation. Some 10,000 hours of operation at temperatures up to 80 °C under illumination are required. Research about the lifetime of organic nonlinear optical material has only started in the past years as the chances for applications based on the second-order susceptibilities x have improved. Nevertheless, only little is known about the longtime effects in nonlinear materials under real world conditions. 

R.L. Sutherland Handbook of Nonlinear Optics (Dekker, New York, 1996) J. Zyss (Ed.) Molecular Nonlinear Optics (Academic, San Diego, 1994) H.G. Kuzyk, C.W. Dirk Characterization Techniques and Tabulations for Organic Nonlinear Optical Materials (Dekker, New York, 1998) G.P. Banfi, D. Fortusini, P. Dainesi, D. Grando, S. Sottini J. Chem. Phys. 108, 4319 (1998)... 

Volume 561— Organic nonlinear Optical Materials and Devices, B. Rippelen, H. Lackritz,... 

Shi RF, Garito AF (1998) Characterization techniques and tabulations for organic nonlinear optical materials. In Kuzyk M, Dirk C (eds) Marcel Dekker, New York, p 767... 

S. Umegaki, Organic Nonlinear Optical Materials, Bunshinshuppan, Tokyo (1990). 

Several derivatives of the halogenodiacetylenes 118 and 119 have been prepared from the corresponding terminal diynes by the metalation/halogenation approach [85, 86], and their preparative use will be described below. Finally, calculations have been published on l-cyano-4-iodobutadiynes to assess the use of these systems as model compounds for push-pull polyynes, which in turn are of interest in connection with organic nonlinear optical materials [87]. 

Ch. Bosshard, K. Sutter, Ph. Pretre, J. Hulliger, M. Flosheimer, P. Kaatz, and P. Gunter, Organic Nonlinear Optical Materials, (Gordon and Breach, Basel, 1995). 

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