{"title":"Optical Measurement of the Glass Transition Temperature of Polymer Waveguides for Integrated Optics","authors":"H. Bock, S. Christian, W. Knoll, J. Vydra","doi":"10.1364/otfa.1997.the.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/otfa.1997.the.20","url":null,"abstract":"The development of polymeric devices for integrated optical applications has recently received much attention [1]. The thermodynamic properties of the waveguiding materials are of vital interest in this field. In particular the fabrication of active components based on poled nonlinear chromophore functionalized polymers requires knowledge of the materials’ glass transition temperature T\u0000 g\u0000 , since the relaxation of noncentrosymmetric orientational order is strongly related to the glass transition.","PeriodicalId":378320,"journal":{"name":"Organic Thin Films for Photonics Applications","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124280043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lian Li, X. Jiang, Dong-Yu Kim, J. Kumar, S. Tripathy
{"title":"Application of Surface Relief Gratings Created on Azobenzene Functionalized Polymer Films as Phase Masks","authors":"Lian Li, X. Jiang, Dong-Yu Kim, J. Kumar, S. Tripathy","doi":"10.1364/otfa.1997.fb.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/otfa.1997.fb.3","url":null,"abstract":"Holographic recording of surface relief gratings has recently been reported in side chain azo containing polymers by Kumar, Tripathy and coworkers [1-10] and Rochon, Natansohn and coworkers [11-13] It has been demonstrated that large surface modulation (>3000Å) could be inscribed in thin films of these polymers when an Argon ion laser radiation at 488 nm with a modest intensity (a few tens of mW/cm2) is used to record the gratings. This grating formation process strongly depends on the polarization states of the recording beams [4]. The gratings appear to be almost sinusoidal and recording of crossed gratings has been demonstrated[1]. These gratings are very stable when they are kept below the glass transition temperature (Tg) of the polymer. The gratings can be erased by either heating the grating sample above Tg or exposing it to a single laser beam at appropriate wavelength and with appropriate polarization [10]. This process allows a one step fabrication of complicated surface profile without the need of any pre or post processing of the polymer samples. Complex surface profiles, for example, well defined beat structures and blazed gratings have been recorded on these polymer films [8]. Since this surface relief grating formation process provides the one step processing and large surface modulation on the polymer films, such process is expected to have significant potential applications for various optical devices including diffractive optical elements.","PeriodicalId":378320,"journal":{"name":"Organic Thin Films for Photonics Applications","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124341257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jun Zhou, Z. Cao, Yingli Chen, Yixin Chen, Meng Sun, Diechi Sun, Fuming Li
{"title":"Observation of Switching Phenomena in Non-ether PPQ Planar Waveguide with Two-wavelength Nonlinear Prism Coupling","authors":"Jun Zhou, Z. Cao, Yingli Chen, Yixin Chen, Meng Sun, Diechi Sun, Fuming Li","doi":"10.1364/otfa.1997.wc.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/otfa.1997.wc.6","url":null,"abstract":"In the past two decades, third-order nonlinear optical properties of organic and polymeric materials have attracted considerable attention to realize all-optical signal processing devices.1,2 Especially, the large off-resonance third-order optical nonlinearities of conjugated organic polymers with delocalized π--electron systems, such as polydiacetylenes3,4, are considered to be potential candidates. Although conjugated polymer is reported to have large χ(3) and fast response time, many of them are highly intractable materials that are difficult to process to form the low-loss waveguide structures required for their application5. Recently, many techniques for fabricating low-loss planar waveguides in thin films of solution processible conjugated polymer have been developed7,8 besides third-order nonlinear optical polymers that exhibit low absorption have been reported6 Furthermore, numerous different schemes which aim is all-optical switching and all-optical logic operations have been suggested for practical devices. They are included in nonlinear prism and grating couplers and nonlinear directional couplers9,10, such as two-channel nonlinear directional couplers, nonlinear Mach-Zehnder interferometers, nonlinear distributed-feedback grating reflectors and adiabatic polymer-glass-waveguide all-optical switch11,12. However, though the prism coupler has attracted partially significant attention both theoretically13 and experimentally14, as so far we know the nonlinear prism coupling to organic polymer waveguide has only been demonstrated in single beam experiments on intense-dependent nonlinear effects15.","PeriodicalId":378320,"journal":{"name":"Organic Thin Films for Photonics Applications","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125224428","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"High Speed Polymer Optical Fiber and Related Photonics Polymer","authors":"Y. Koike","doi":"10.1364/otfa.1997.thb.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/otfa.1997.thb.2","url":null,"abstract":"With the growing interest focused on the broadband network systems, optical fiber network for high speed telecommunication becomes more important in the premise network area. Silica base single mode fiber is an ideal medium for long distance communication because of its high transparency and high bandwidth, while its much low attenuation is minor advantage in the short distance network. As many data distributions and fiber connections are required in the premises wiring and LANs, low coupling and distribution losses must be maintained. Therefore, we have proposed a large-core, high-bandwidth graded-index polymer optical fiber (GI POF) for high speed data \"transmission\" medium, and we succeeded in several gigabit transmission in 100 m GI POF link. However, as the GI POF was composed of poly methyl methacrylate (PMMA), its high attenuation of transmission limited the GI POF link length to approximately 100 m. Recently we proposed the low-loss perfluorinated (PF) polymer base GI POF which enables more than 300-m transmission with maintaining high data rate.","PeriodicalId":378320,"journal":{"name":"Organic Thin Films for Photonics Applications","volume":"21 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116835551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. G. Chittibabu, L. Li, X. Wang, J. Kumar, S. Tripathy
{"title":"Thiophene based Nonlinear Optical Chromophore functionalized Epoxy Polymers for Electro-Optic Applications","authors":"K. G. Chittibabu, L. Li, X. Wang, J. Kumar, S. Tripathy","doi":"10.1364/otfa.1997.thc.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/otfa.1997.thc.4","url":null,"abstract":"Polymeric materials present certain advantages over inorganic crystals for second-order nonlinear optical (NLO) applications because of their low dielectric constant, large optical nonlinearity, low cost, and ease of processability. Stable NLO polymeric materials are potential candidates for electro-optic (EO) devices such as high bandwidth electro-optic modulators [1], optical interconnects [2], and fiber optic gyros [3]. Second-order NLO properties in polymers are present when the chromophores are aligned in a non-centrosymmetric manner. Chromophores with enhanced NLO susceptibilities can be obtained by increasing electron-donating and/or accepting effects [4], by extending the conjugation length between the donor and acceptor groups [5] and by replacing the phenyl moieties in the chromophores with thiophene moieties [6]. Efforts were made by our group [7] and various other groups [6, 8] to synthesize and optimize the properties of the chromophore functionalized polymers with high optical nonlinearity. Jen and coworkers synthesized a variety of thiophene based chromophores with high optical nonlinearity, 'μβ' [6, 8]. Many of these chromophores, when doped in a polymer matrix exhibited an electro-optic value greater than 20 pm/V. Marder and coworkers studied the effect of strong acceptors in NLO chromophores and have found that an 'r33' value of 55 pm/V at 1.313 μm is realizable with some of these chromophore doped polycarbonate composites. However, most of these systems are of guest-host type, which limit the chromophore solubility as well as temporal stability of the poled order in the NLO chromophore-polymer composites.","PeriodicalId":378320,"journal":{"name":"Organic Thin Films for Photonics Applications","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124003632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Characterization of Electro-Optic Polymer Films using Decal Deposited Reflection Fabry-Perot Modulators","authors":"L.-M. Wu, P. Prêtre, R. Hill, A. Knoesen","doi":"10.1364/otfa.1997.fc.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/otfa.1997.fc.2","url":null,"abstract":"Electro-optic (EO) properties of nonlinear optical polymers (NLPs), of key interest in any device application, are most widely measured with ellipsometric(1, 2) or interferometric methods.(3) The major drawbacks of these techniques are: a) with ellipsometry, the Pockels coefficients cannot be extracted independently, b) refractive indices must be obtained from other measurements, and c) these methods ignore multiple reflection effects in stratified samples. Waveguiding methods such as attenuated total reflection (ATR) measurements are capable of a complete linear optical and EO characterization of NLPs.(4) But the ATR prism complicates the angular scans, and waveguiding conditions over a large spectral range are difficult to fulfill with a single sample.","PeriodicalId":378320,"journal":{"name":"Organic Thin Films for Photonics Applications","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129132889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Molecular-Level Engineering of Polymer-Based Light-Emitting Devices","authors":"M. Rubner","doi":"10.1364/otfa.1997.wd.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/otfa.1997.wd.5","url":null,"abstract":"Molecular-level processing schemes have been utilized to fabricate light emitting thin film devices from a variety of materials including conjugated polymers and polymers containing tris-chelated Ru(II) complexes.","PeriodicalId":378320,"journal":{"name":"Organic Thin Films for Photonics Applications","volume":"128 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128164513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Junva Kobavashi, T. Maruno, Y. Hida, T. Matsuura, S. Sasaki
{"title":"Thermooptic switches using fluorinated polyimide waveguides","authors":"Junva Kobavashi, T. Maruno, Y. Hida, T. Matsuura, S. Sasaki","doi":"10.1364/otfa.1997.fa.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/otfa.1997.fa.4","url":null,"abstract":"Thermooptic (TO) switches using polymer optical waveguides have attracted much attention because the TO effect of polymers is ten times that of silica. Therefore, using polymers instead of silica [1-2] significantly reduces the required switching power. Moreover, fabricating polymer optical waveguides is easier than fabricating silica-based ones, so large optical devices can be made more easily.","PeriodicalId":378320,"journal":{"name":"Organic Thin Films for Photonics Applications","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130440171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. V. Van Stryland, A. Dogariu, J. Lim, D. Hagan, O. Przhonska
{"title":"Optical Limiting and the Potential Role of Organic Materials","authors":"E. V. Van Stryland, A. Dogariu, J. Lim, D. Hagan, O. Przhonska","doi":"10.1364/otfa.1997.tha.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/otfa.1997.tha.1","url":null,"abstract":"We will present a brief review of past work on passive sensor protection devices including the materials studied (e.g. semiconductors, organics and ink) and some of the requirements of optical limiting devices. The nonlinear mechanisms potentially useful for optical limiting include nonlinear absorption, nonlinear refraction and nonlinear scattering. We present methods for characterizing nonlinear materials using Z-scan and related techniques and describe ways to differentiate the nonlinear mechanisms. We will specifically discuss two-photon absorption and excited-state absorption (referred to as reverse-saturable absorption), as well as bound electronic n2 and excited-state refraction. We also show how to examine organic thin films using a modified Z-scan with enhanced sensitivity called EZ-scan. The organic materials studied include phthalocyanine and polymethine dyes. The potential of organics for real optical systems remains to be seen. For example, the most promising organic limiting materials are effective over somewhat smaller spectral ranges than desired. Mixing of different materials in solution or solid matrices may extend the spectral range, and potentially extend the dynamic range as well.","PeriodicalId":378320,"journal":{"name":"Organic Thin Films for Photonics Applications","volume":"156 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133786669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Linear Electro-Optic measurements of Dye-Doped Polymers","authors":"F. Ghebremichael, R. Knize","doi":"10.1364/otfa.1997.the.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/otfa.1997.the.3","url":null,"abstract":"The basic Mach-Zehnder interferometer was modified for use in in-situ temperature dependent linear electro-optic (LEO) measurements of thin films of 4-dimethylamino-4'-nitrostilbene (DANS) doped into poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA). Optimum interferometer phase stability was possible because of an incorporated electronic feedback system. Film thickness variation was compensated for in order to obtain more accurate LEO coefficient measurements and thus the second order susceptibility. Moreover, both the α-relaxation associated with the glass transition, Tg, and β-relaxation associated with the secondary transition occurring below Tg of PMMA + 2%wt.DANS were obtained.","PeriodicalId":378320,"journal":{"name":"Organic Thin Films for Photonics Applications","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127926458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}