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Doped Polymers as Third-Order Nonlinear-Optical Materials

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Recently, there has been much interest in doped polymeric materials owing to their suitability for optical device applications.{xc[1]} While most of this effort has been centered on poled polymers and their applications to electrooptics, doped polymers are beginning to emerge as a promising material class for all-optical device applications. In this contribution, we discuss the status of doped polymers as third-order optical materials. Particular attention is focused on those properties that make doped polymers attractive as device materials such as optical nonlinearity and loss and their suitability for nonlinear-optical fiber devices.

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  1. Dept. of Physics, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington

    Mark. G. Kuzyk

  2. AT&T Bell Laboratories, Princeton, New Jersey

    U. C. Paek

  3. Dept. of Chemistry, University of Texas, El Paso, Texas

    Carl W. Dirk

  4. Dept. of Chemistry, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

    Mark P. Andrews

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Kuzyk, M.G., Paek, U.C., Dirk, C.W. et al. Doped Polymers as Third-Order Nonlinear-Optical Materials. MRS Online Proceedings Library 214, 3–10 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1557/PROC-214-3

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