Multi-month thermal aging of electro-optic polymer waveguides: Synthesis, fabrication, and relaxation modeling

Polymer

Volumn 48, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 6605-6616

  Lindsay, Geoffrey A ^a   Guenthner, Andrew J ^a   Wright, Michael E ^a   Sanghadasa, Mohan ^b   Ashley, Paul R ^c  

^a NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

^b AEGIS TECHNOLOGIES GROUP INC   (United States)

^c US Army AMRDEC Development   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Chromophore; Nonlinear optic

Indexed keywords

CHROMOPHORES; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; POLYCARBONATES; POLYIMIDES; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); THERMAL AGING; WAVEGUIDES;

ELECTRO-OPTIC POLYMER; ISOTHERMAL RELAXATION; MACH-ZEHNDER OPTICAL INTERFEROMETERS; STRETCHED EXPONENTIAL EQUATION;

POLYMERS;

AGING; FABRICATION; FILM; POLYMER; SYNTHESIS; THERMAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 35248849319     PISSN: 00323861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2007.08.057     Document Type: Article

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