A comparison of photoinduced poling and thermal poling of azo-dye-doped polymer films for second order nonlinear optical applications

Photoinduced poling (PIP) is a new technique which allows the room-temperature preparation of guest/host polymer films exhibiting significant polar order for nonlinear optical applications. We report a comparison of this novel technique with the conventional electrode poling procedure performed at t...

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Veröffentlicht in:Applied physics letters 1993-10, Vol.63 (15), p.2038-2040
Hauptverfasser: BLANCHARD, P. M, MITCHELL, G. R
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Photoinduced poling (PIP) is a new technique which allows the room-temperature preparation of guest/host polymer films exhibiting significant polar order for nonlinear optical applications. We report a comparison of this novel technique with the conventional electrode poling procedure performed at the glass transition temperature of the polymer using disperse red 1/poly(methylmethacrylate) films. In particular, in situ second harmonic generation measurements show that levels of polar order achieved using these two techniques are similar. In contrast, the stability of the polar order is reduced by up to 20 times in terms of the decay time constant in films prepared using PIP although the stability is very dependent upon the temperature at which the poling was performed.
ISSN:0003-6951
1077-3118
DOI:10.1063/1.110584