Prospects of third-order nonlinear optical polymers for guided wave applications: `Rigid rod', `hairy rod', `ladder' and `picket fence' polymers

Marek Samoc; Anna Samoc; Barry Luther-Davies; Zhenan Bao; Shirshendu Kumar Deb; Luping Yu; Bing Hsieh; Ullrich Scherf

Prospects of third-order nonlinear optical polymers for guided wave applications: `Rigid rod', `hairy rod', `ladder' and `picket fence' polymers

Marek Samoc^*
, Anna Samoc
, Barry Luther-Davies
, Zhenan Bao
, Shirshendu Kumar Deb
, Luping Yu
, Bing Hsieh
, Ullrich Scherf

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We compare the third-order nonlinear optical properties of several π-conjugated polymers: poly(p-phenylenevinylene) (PPV), which is a `rigid rod' type of a molecule, substituted poly(p-phenylenevinylenes) representing the `hairy rod' structures, a `ladder' type poly(p-phenylene) polymer and a novel conjugated polymer: polyindenofluorene having a `picket fence' structure. The real and imaginary parts of the nonlinear refractive index and two-photon loss merit factors at 800 nm have been derived from the femtosecond Z-scan measurements of the polymers in solutions. The data on the modulus of nonlinear refractive index |n ₂| have been obtained from degenerate four-wave mixing in films of the neat polymers and the composites of PPV.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	183-196
Number of pages	14
Journal	Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Science and Technology Section B: Nonlinear Optics
Volume	20
Issue number	1
Publication status	Published - 1999
Event	Proceedings of the 1997 International Symposium on Organic Polymeric Materials for Optical Communication and Information Storage - Taejon, S Kor Duration: 30 Oct 1997 → 1 Nov 1997

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Prospects of third-order nonlinear optical polymers for guided wave applications: `Rigid rod', `hairy rod', `ladder' and `picket fence' polymers. / Samoc, Marek; Samoc, Anna; Luther-Davies, Barry et al.
In: Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Science and Technology Section B: Nonlinear Optics, Vol. 20, No. 1, 1999, p. 183-196.

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