TY - GEN
T1 - New developments in thermally stable second order nonlinear optical chromophores and electro-optic polymers
AU - Rao, Varanasi P.
AU - Jen, Alex K.
AU - Cai, Y. M.
PY - 1995
Y1 - 1995
N2 - A new class of thermally and chemically stable donor-acceptor substituted thiophenes is presented. It is shown that exceptionally large electro-optic activity (as high as 30 pm/V at 1.3 μm) can be achieved by doping/covalently bonding highly efficient trycyanovinylthiophenes into high temperature polymers such as polymidies and polyquinolines. Monitoring the long-term stability of electro-optic activity at temperatures above 100 degrees C has revealed that the covalent bonding approach is quite superior to the guest-host approach in polymide as well as polyquinoline based materials.
AB - A new class of thermally and chemically stable donor-acceptor substituted thiophenes is presented. It is shown that exceptionally large electro-optic activity (as high as 30 pm/V at 1.3 μm) can be achieved by doping/covalently bonding highly efficient trycyanovinylthiophenes into high temperature polymers such as polymidies and polyquinolines. Monitoring the long-term stability of electro-optic activity at temperatures above 100 degrees C has revealed that the covalent bonding approach is quite superior to the guest-host approach in polymide as well as polyquinoline based materials.
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M3 - RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication)
SN - 0819418862
SN - 9780819418869
VL - 2527
SP - 84
EP - 91
BT - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
T2 - Nonlinear Optical Properties of Organic Materials VIII
Y2 - 11 July 1995 through 13 July 1995
ER -