Polymers photonic applications

Wong CP (1993) Polymers for electronic and photonic applications. Academic Press, New York... 

For the sources of data in Table I see references sited in Williams, D. J. Electronic and Photonic Applications of Polymers ACS Advances in Chemistry Series No. 218, M. Bowden and S. R. Turner, Eds. American Chemical Society Washington, 1988 p 307. 

The results are to some extent inconclusive and suggest that a two-photon state may have to be included. Also reported here are some further major improvements in molecular second order nonlinearities of particular importance to poled-polymer electrooptic applications (EO). Thus, it is found that appropriate replacement of benzene moieties with that of thiazole in certain azo dyes results in a factor of three increase in i-p, the molecular dipole ( io) projected molecular second order nonlinear optical susceptibility, p. 

Lee MH, Lee HJ, Han SG, Kim HY, Won YH (1998) Fabrication and characterization of electro-optic polymer waveguide modulator for photonic application. In Wise DL, Wnek GE, Trantolo DJ, Cooper TM, Gresser JD (eds) Electrical and optical polymer systems. Marcel Dekker, New York, chap 17... 

Chen A, Chuyanov V, Garner S, Steier WH, Dalton LR (1997) Modified attenuated total reflection for the fast and routine electro-optic measurements of nonlinear optical polymer films. In Organic thin films for photonic applications, vol 14. Optical Society of America, Washington DC,p 158... 

Advanced photonic devices are often composed of working units with high RI contrasts. The RI values of existing polymers, however, vary in a small range (n = 1.338-1.710) [130,131], which limits the scope of their photonic applications. Theory predicts that molecules consisting of groups with high... 

Dalton, L. (2002) in Polymers for Photonic Applications I (Lee, K.-S., ed.), Advances in Polymer Science, 158, Berlin, Springer Verlag. 

Ordered macroporous materials (OMMs) are a new family of porous materials that can be synthesized by using colloidal microspheies as the template. - The most unique characteristics of OMMs are their uniformly sized macropores arranged at micrometer length scale in three dimensions. Colloidal microspheres (latex polymer or silica) can self assemble into ordered arrays (synthetic opals) with a three-dimensional crystalline structure. The interstices in the colloidal crystals are infiltrated with a precursor material such as metal alkoxide. Upon removal of the template, a skeleton of the infiltrated material with a three-dimensionally ordered macroporous structure (inverse opals) is obtained. Because of the 30 periodicity of the materials, these structures have been extensively studied for photonic applications. In this paper, the synthesis and characterization of highly ordered macroporous materials with various compositions and functionalities (silica, organosilica, titana, titanosilicate, alumina) are presented. The application potential of OMMS in adsorption/separation is analyzed and discussed. 

Charge transfer NLO polymers offer the promise of truly unique properties properties that mimic the performance of photorefractive materials, but on ultrafast (picosecond) time scales. Such materials would enable ultrafast photonic applications (e.g. ultrafast optical switching and ultrafast image processing) that are impossible today with any known class of materials. 

In Electronic and Photonic Applications of Polymers Bowden, M., el aL Advances in Chemistry American Chemical Society Washington, DC, 1988. 

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