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Metallo-Organic Materials for Optical Telecommunications

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Optoelectronic Properties of Inorganic Compounds

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Metallo-organic compounds are just one class of “molecular materials” currently attracting intense interest for their potential use in telecommunications devices. Other types of molecular material include wholly organic polymers containing push—pull, electron donor—acceptor combinations in either the main-chain or most often as side-chain substituents1; highly conjugated main-chain polymers,2 e.g., polyacetylenes, polypyrroles, polyphenylenevinylenes, etc.; and more complex macrocyclics such as C60 and related fullerenes.3,4 In each case the principal property of interest is the optical nonlinearity, either x 2 or x 3 , where the susceptibility may have both real and imaginary components.

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Kershaw, S.V. (1999). Metallo-Organic Materials for Optical Telecommunications. In: Roundhill, D.M., Fackler, J.P. (eds) Optoelectronic Properties of Inorganic Compounds. Modern Inorganic Chemistry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-6101-6_10

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