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Highly efficient, thermally stable and optically transparent third-order nonlinear optical copolymers consisting of fluorene and quinoxaline/quinoline units

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New fluorene-linked conjugated polyquinoxaline and polyquinoline possess adequate optical transparency, excellent thermal stability and good processability. Degenerate four-wave-mixing measurements on these polymers yield nonresonant third-order susceptibilities as high as 1.1×10-10 esu and nonresonant second-order hyperpolarizabilities per repeated unit as high as 2.0×10-31 esu. The large nonlinearity originates from the high electron delocalization due to the planar rigid structure of the fluorene ring and the imine nitrogen of quinoxaline and quinoline.

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  1. Center for Molecular Science, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100080, Beijing, P.R. China

    X.W. Zhan , Y.Q. Liu  & D.B. Zhu

  2. Center for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100080, Beijing, P.R. China

    G. Xu , X.C. Liu  & P.X. Ye

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Zhan , X., Liu , Y., Zhu , D. et al. Highly efficient, thermally stable and optically transparent third-order nonlinear optical copolymers consisting of fluorene and quinoxaline/quinoline units. Appl Phys A 77, 375–378 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-003-2185-6

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