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We have found that BiB3O6:Tm3+ glass nanoparticles (NP) incorporated into the polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) and polycarbonate (PC) polymer matrices additionally treated by dc-electric field (at electric strength about 8 kV/cm) at temperatures above the glassing temperature of the polymers show promising values of electrooptics coefficients (up to 10 pm/V at λ = 633 nm). It was established that only during incorporation into the highly polarized PC matrices one could observe an enhancement of the electroopitcs effect (EOE) coefficient with increasing time of the dc-electric treatment. The main increase was observed for all the samples at times higher than 80 min of dc-electric field treatment at temperature above the glassing temperatures of the corresponding polymers. The most striking feature is the achievement of effective electrooptics coefficient value below than 10 pm/V (λ = 633 nm) for the 4% content of the Tm doped BiBO glass nanoparticle (NP) embedded in the PC matrix. In the case of the bulk glasses the thermal poling unambiguously shows that the achieved maximal values of the electrooptics coefficient did not exceed 3.2 pm/V for 0.5% Tm+3 concentration.
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Financial support from the State Committee for Scientific Research (Grant No N507 378335) is gratefully acknowledged. One of the authors (K. Ozga) gratefully acknowledges financial support by the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP).
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Majchrowski, A., Ebothe, J., Sanetra, J. et al. Electrooptics parameters of the BiBO:Tm3+ glass nanoparticles embedded in polymer matrices. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 21, 726–729 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-009-9985-1
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