Photostability of electro-optic polymers possessing chromophores with efficient amino donors and cyano-containing acceptors

    Authors

    A. Galvan-Gonzalez; G. I. Stegeman; A. K. Y. Jen; X. Wu; M. Canva; A. C. Kowalczyk; X. Q. Zhang; H. S. Lackritz; S. Marder; S. Thayumanavan;G. Levina

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. B-Opt. Phys.

    Keywords

    HIGHLY EFFICIENT; WAVE-GUIDES; PHOTODEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENT; STABILITY; TEMPERATURE; ABSORPTION; MODULATORS; DEPENDENCE; Optics

    Abstract

    The photostability of various electro-optic active guest-host polymers, doped with chromophores that possess very efficient cyano-containing acceptors and dialkyamino- or diarylamino-benzenes, and also their extended thiophene analogs as bridging structures, has been investigated over a broad wavelength range in the near infrared and the visible. A variation of over 2 orders of magnitude was found in the probability that an absorbed photon will lead to a photodegraded chromophore. The most photostable chromophore contained a tricyanovinyl acceptor and a diarylaminobenzene bridge unit. (C) 2001 Optical Society of America.

    Journal Title

    Journal of the Optical Society of America B-Optical Physics

    Volume

    18

    Issue/Number

    12

    Publication Date

    1-1-2001

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    1846

    Last Page

    1853

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000172669400011

    ISSN

    0740-3224

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