Novel Monomeric Amorphous Material for Second-Order NLO: The Low-Molecular-Weight Organic Glasses

  • E. Ishow
  • K. Nakatani
  • J. Delaire
  • L. Qiu
Chapter
Part of the NATO Science Series book series (NAII, volume 100)

Abstract

Low-molecular-weight (LMW) organic glasses have recently appeared as attractive materials for many optical applications as they combine the structural advantageous features of both molecular crystals and polymeric matrices.

Keywords

Organic Glass Second Harmonic Generation Signal Photostationary State Excited State Dipole Moment Second Harmonic Generation Intensity 
These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

References

  1. 1.
    Lundquist, P.M., Wortmann, R., Geletneky, C., Twieg, R.J., Jurich, M., Lee, V.Y., Moylan, C.R. and Burland, D.M. (1996) Organic Glasses: a new class of photorefractive materials, Science 274, 1182–1185.ADSCrossRefGoogle Scholar
  2. 2.
    Würthner, F., Yao, S., Schilling, J., Wortmann, R., Redi-Abshiro, M., Mecher, E., Gallego-Gomez, F. and Meerholz, K. (2001) ATOP Dyes. Optimization of a multifunctional merocyanine chromophore for high refractive index modulation in photorefractive materials, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 123, 2810–2824.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  3. 3.
    Schloter, S., Schreiber, A., Grasruck, M., Leopold, A., Kol’chenko, M., Pan, J., Strohriegel, P., Zilker, S.J. and Haarer, D. (1999) Holographic and photoelectric characterization of a novel photorefractive organic glass, Appl. Phys. B 68, 899–906.ADSCrossRefGoogle Scholar
  4. 4.
    Shirota, Y. (2000) Organic materials for electronic and optoelectronic devices, J. Mater. Chem. 10, 1–25.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  5. 5.
    Tao, Y.T., Balasubramaniam, E., Danel, A., Jarosz, B. and Tomasik P. (2001) Organic light-emitting diodes based on variously substituted pyrazoloquinolines as emitting material, Chem. Mat. 13, 1207–1212.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  6. 6.
    Eich, M., Looser, H., Yoon, D.Y., Twieg, R., Bjorklund, G. and Baumert, J.C. (1989) Second-harmonic generation in poled organic monomeric glasses, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B. 6, 1590–1597.ADSCrossRefGoogle Scholar
  7. 7.
    Shirota, Y., Moriwaki, K., Yoshikawa, S., Ujike, T. and Nakano, H. (1998) 4-[Di(biphenyl-4-yl)amino]azobenzene and 4, 4′-[bis(4′-tert-butylbiphenyl-4-yl)amino]azobenzene as a novel family of photochromic amorphous molecular materials, J. Mater. Chem. 8, 2579–2581.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  8. 8.
    Dürr, H. and Bouas-Laurent, H. (1990) Photochromism, Molecules and Systems, Elsevier, Amsterdam.Google Scholar
  9. 9.
    Maltey, I., Delaire, J.D., Nakatani, K., Wang, P., Shi, X. and Wu, S. (1996) Hyperpolarisability of (donor)2-acceptor-type molecules determined by EFISHG, Adv. Mater. Opt. Elect. 6, 233–238.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  10. 10.
    Oudar J. L. (1977) Hyperpolarisabilities of the nitroaniline and their relations to the excited state dipole moment, J. Chem. Phys. 67, 446–457.ADSCrossRefGoogle Scholar
  11. 11.
    Katz, H.E., Singer, K.D., Sohn, J.E., Dirk, C.W., King, L.A. and Gordon, H.M. (1987) Greatly enhanced second-order nonlinear optical susceptibilities in donor-acceptor organic molecules, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 109, 6561–6562.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  12. 12.
    Watanabe, T., Nalwa, H.S. and Miyata S. (1997) Nonlinear Optics of Organic Molecules and Polymers, CRC Press, Boca Raton, pp 57–92.Google Scholar
  13. 13.
    ibid p 419.Google Scholar
  14. 14.
    Sekkat, Z. and Dumont, M. (1992) Poling of azo dye doped polymeric films at room temperature, Appl. Phys. B. 54, 486–489.ADSCrossRefGoogle Scholar

Copyright information

© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2003

Authors and Affiliations

  • E. Ishow
    • 1
  • K. Nakatani
    • 1
  • J. Delaire
    • 1
  • L. Qiu
    • 2
  1. 1.Laboratoire de Photophysique et Photochimie Supramoléculaire et Macromoléculaire, UMR CNRS 8531Ecole Normale Supérieure de CachanCachan CedexFrance
  2. 2.Institute of Photographic ChemistryAcademia SinicaBeijingPeople’s Republic of China

Personalised recommendations