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Photostability of electro-optic polymers possessing chromophores with efficient amino donors and cyano-containing acceptors

A. Galvan-Gonzalez, G. I. Stegeman, A. K-Y. Jen, X. Wu, M. Canva, A. C. Kowalczyk, X. Q. Zhang, H. S. Lackritz, S. Marder, S. Thayumanavan, G. Levina

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Abstract

The photostability of various electro-optic active guest-host polymers, doped with chromophores that possess very efficient cyano-containing acceptors and dialkyamino- or diarylamino- benzenes, and also their extended thiophene analogs as bridging structures, has been investigated over a broad wavelength range in the near infrared and the visible. A variation of over 2 orders of magnitude was found in the probability that an absorbed photon will lead to a photodegraded chromophore. The most photostable chromophore contained a tricyanovinyl acceptor and a diarylaminobenzene bridge unit. © 2001 Optical Society of America.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1846-1853
JournalJournal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics
Volume18
Issue number12
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2001
Externally publishedYes

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