A New Guest-Host System: Towards Stable Second-Order Optical Nonlinearity

Abstract

A new guest-host system based on the azo dye disperse red 1 and phenyl siloxane polymer has been investigated. The second order susceptibility of the polymer cured at 220 deg C was found to be stable at room temperature and decays to 60 % of its original value after being maintained at a temperature of 100 deg C for nearly 30 hours. The linear and second-order nonlinear optical (NLO) properties of this material are measured and reported. Curing at higher temperature is expected to lead to greater stability of NLO properties. Nonlinear optical polymer.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 14, 1992
Accession Number
ADA251621

Entities

People

  • Akshat Jain
  • Jayant Ram Kumar
  • R. J . Jeng
  • Sukant K. Tripathy
  • Y. M. Chen

Organizations

  • University of Massachusetts Lowell

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Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Absorption
  • Absorption Spectra
  • Chemistry
  • Films
  • Glass
  • Glass Transition Temperature
  • High Temperature
  • Materials
  • Military Research
  • Molecules
  • Optical Properties
  • Polymeric Films
  • Polymers
  • Spectra
  • Transition Temperature
  • Transitions
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Materials science

Readers

  • Nanocomposite Materials Science
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.
  • Polymer Science and Engineering.