Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-vdxz6 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-25T15:31:29.185Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Advances in Organic Electro-Optic Devices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2011

John I. Thackara ,
G. F. Lipscomb ,
R. S. Lytel  and
A. J. Ticknor
John I. Thackara
Affiliation:
Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, Research and Development Division, 3251 Hanover St. O97–20 B202, Palo Alto California 94304
G. F. Lipscomb
Affiliation:
Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, Research and Development Division, 3251 Hanover St. O97–20 B202, Palo Alto California 94304
R. S. Lytel
Affiliation:
Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, Research and Development Division, 3251 Hanover St. O97–20 B202, Palo Alto California 94304
A. J. Ticknor
Affiliation:
Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, Research and Development Division, 3251 Hanover St. O97–20 B202, Palo Alto California 94304
Get access

Abstract

We report initial experiments on the fabrication of active and passiveintegrated optic device structures based on poled polymer electro-optic buried channel waveguides. The process of channel waveguide definition and fabrication through electric field poling is described and experimental results are presented. The fabrication, theoretical performance modeling and experimental evaluation of several integrated optic device structures, including phase modulators, directional couplers and Y-branch interferometers, are also reported.

Type
Research Article
Information
MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 109: Symposium K – Nonlinear Optical Properties of Polymers , 1987 , 19
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1988

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

1 See for example, Nonlinear Optical Properties of Organic Molecules and Crystals, Vols. 1 and 2, Chemla, D. and Zyss, J., ed., Academic Press, NY (1987), and the papers in this volume.Google Scholar
2 Stamatoff, j., this volume.Google Scholar
3 Thackara, J.I., Lipscomb, G. F., Stiller, M.A., Tichnor, A.J. and Lytel, R., ”Poled electro-optic waveguide formation in thin-film meda”, submitted Applied Physics Letters.Google Scholar
4 Lipscomb, G.F., Garito, A.F. and Narang, R.S., ”An exceptionally large linear electro-optic effect in the organic solid MNA”, J. C em. Phys. 75,1509 (1981).Google Scholar
5 Lalama, S.J. and Garito, A.F., ”Origin of the nonlinear second-order optical susceptibilities of organic systems”, Phys. Rev. (1979). A20 1179 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
6 Pugh, D. and Morley, J.O., ”Molecular Hyperpolarizabilities of Organic Materials”, in Nonlinear Optical Properties of Organic Molecules and Crystals, Vol.1, Chemla, D. and Zyss, J., ed., Academic Press, NY (1987), p. 193.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
7 Singer, K.D. and Garito, A.F., ”Measurements of molecular second-order optical susceptibilities using dc induced second harmonic generation”, J. Chem. Phys. 75, 3572 (1981).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
8 Teng, C.C. and Garito, A.F., ”Dispersion of the Nonlinear Second-Order Optical Susceptibility of an Organic System: p-nitroaniline”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 50, 350 (1983).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
9 Singer, K. D., Sohn, J.E., and Lalama, S.J., Appi. Phys. Lett. 49, 248 (1986), and K.D. Singer, M.G. Kuzyk and J.E. Sohn, "Second-Order nonlinearoptical processors in orientationally ordered materials: relationship between molecular and macroscopic properties", J Opt. Soc. Am. B4, 968 (1987).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
10 Williams, D.J., ”Nonlinear Optical Properties of Guest-Host Polymer Structures”, in Nonlinear Optical Properties of Organic Molecules and Crystals, Vol.1, Chemla, D. and Zyss, J., ed., Academic Press, NY (1987), p. 405.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
11 DeMartino, R. N., Choe, E.W., Khanarian, G., Haas, D., Leslie, T., Nelson, G., Stamatoff, J., Steutz, D., Teng, C.C. and Yoon, H., ”Development of Polymeric Nonlinear Optical Materials”, Proc. American Chemical Society Symposium on Electro-Active Polymers, Denver, CO, April 1987 (to be Published).Google Scholar
12 Stamatoff, j., Hcechst Celanese Research Corp., Summit, NJ, Private Communication.Google Scholar
13 Oudar, J.L. and Zyss, J., ”Structural dependence of the nonlinear-optical properties of methyl-(2,4-dinitrophenyl-aminopropanoate crystals”, Ahys. Rev. A26, 2016 (1982).Google Scholar
14 Ticknor, A. J., to be published.Google Scholar