Nonlinear moiety-doped polymers with improved optical properties for photonic devices

Myung-Hyun Lee; Hwan Kyu Kim; Hye-Young Kim; Hyuek Jae Lee; K. H. Kang; Yong Hyub Won; Eunsuk S. Jeon; Jeong Weon Wu

doi:10.1117/12.173820

15 May 1994 Nonlinear optical moiety-doped polymers with improved optical properties for photonic devices

Myung-Hyun Lee, Hwan Kyu Kim, Hye-Young Kim, Hyuek Jae Lee, K. H. Kang, Yong Hyub Won, Eunsuk S. Jeon, Jeong Weon Wu

Proceedings Volume 2143, Organic, Metallo-Organic, and Polymeric Materials for Nonlinear Optical Applications; (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.173820
Event: OE/LASE '94, 1994, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Abstract

An electro-optic polymer guest-host system has been constructed and demonstrated. The polymer host is a polyimide (PIQ2200) and the guest chromophores are dimethyl (or diethyl) amino alkyl sulfone stilbenes. The alkylated-NLO moieties as guest chromophores have been modified, yielding new alkylated-NLO moieties. The higher content of alkylated-NLO moieties, compared to unmodified NLO moieties, was doped into a polyimide host system due to the improved solubility of new alkylated-NLO moieties. To the 40 wt%, the new alkylated- NLO moiety has been completely dissolved in the preliminary experiment, leading to the increase of refractive index by 0.0016. These polyimide-based guest-host systems exhibited a significant improvement in the thermal stability at high temperatures exceeding 250 degree(s)C. The electro-optic coefficient reported in the present study is 13 pm/V for the 40 wt% DASS-6- doped polymer system poled at the 135 V/micrometers . However, further increase up to 25 pm/V may easily be achieved by increasing the amount of guest moieties and/or the intensity of the poling field. This work presents new materials for photonic switching devices with low operating voltage.

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Myung-Hyun Lee, Hwan Kyu Kim, Hye-Young Kim, Hyuek Jae Lee, K. H. Kang, Yong Hyub Won, Eunsuk S. Jeon, and Jeong Weon Wu "Nonlinear optical moiety-doped polymers with improved optical properties for photonic devices", Proc. SPIE 2143, Organic, Metallo-Organic, and Polymeric Materials for Nonlinear Optical Applications, (15 May 1994); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.173820

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