Accordion Polymers with Aromatic Donors

Abstract

Nonlinear optical (NLO) polymers are of considerable interest for photonics applications due to their fast NLO response time, low cost, ease of fabrication, favorable material characteristics for high-speed modulation, and potentially large nonlinear second-order susceptibility. These materials can readily be formed into thin films fabricated by standard microelectronic techniques. Photonic modulators with bandwidths as high as 110 GHz have recently been reported.1