Interdigitated coplanar electrodes for enhanced sensitivity in a photorefractive polymer

    Authors

    C. W. Christenson; C. Greenlee; B. Lynn; J. Thomas; P. A. Blanche; R. Voorakaranam; P. St Hilaire; L. J. LaComb; R. A. Norwood; M. Yamamoto;N. Peyghambarian

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Opt. Lett.

    Keywords

    Optics

    Abstract

    Organic photorefractive polymer composites can be made to exhibit near 100% diffraction efficiency and fast writing times, though large external slants are needed to project the applied field onto the grating vector. We show here that the use of interdigitated electrodes on a single plane provides similar performance to these standard devices and geometries but without a external slant angle. This new device's structure also greatly improves the diffraction efficiency and sensitivity compared to less slanted standard devices necessary for some real applications, such as holographic displays, optical coherence imaging, and in-plane switching. (C) 2011 Optical Society of America

    Journal Title

    Optics Letters

    Volume

    36

    Issue/Number

    17

    Publication Date

    1-1-2011

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    3377

    Last Page

    3379

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000294667100025

    ISSN

    0146-9592

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