T. Kaino et al., MOLECULAR DESIGN OF NONLINEAR-OPTICAL POLYMERIC MATERIALS FOR SWITCHING DEVICE APPLICATION, Molecular crystals and liquid crystals science and technology. Section A, Molecular crystals and liquid crystals, 255, 1994, pp. 177-185
Molecular design of nonlinear optical (NLO) polymeric materials for de
vice application such as ultrafast optical switches are discussed. It
is necessary to fabricate channel waveguides to realize polymeric NLO
switching devices that can be driven with lower laser power. For that
purposes, we have proposed a molecular structure of processable NLO po
lymers where the reduction of an attenuation loss and the attainments
of higher processability of the polymers are achieved. Third-order non
linear optical properties, chi((3)), of novel NLO polymers were around
10(-10) esu at 1.5 mu m wavelength region. Even in off-resonant regio
ns, their chi((3)) values are around 5 x 10(-11) esu. Single mode chan
nel waveguides of the polymers are fabricated using a standard photo-p
rocess. Attenuation loss through the film and that far the single mode
waveguide at 1.32 mu m wavelength was also reported.