High and stable photoinduced anisotropy in guest-host polymer mediated by chromophore aggregation

Optics Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1813-1815

  Priimagi, Arri ^a   Shevchenko, Andriy ^a   Kaivola, Matti ^a   Rodriguez, Francisco J ^b,d   Kauranen, Martti ^b   Rochon, Paul ^c  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^c ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE OF CANADA   (Canada)

^d ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZOBENZENE CHROMOPHORE; AZOBENZENE-CONTAINING POLYMER; GUEST-HOST; MATERIAL SYSTEMS; MOLECULAR ALIGNMENT; NOVEL MATERIALS; OPTICAL ELEMENTS; ORDER PARAMETER; PHOTO-ALIGNMENT; PHOTO-INDUCED ANISOTROPY; PHOTOINDUCED BIREFRINGENCE; PHOTORESPONSIVE; THERMAL STABILITY;

ALIGNMENT; ANISOTROPY; BIREFRINGENCE; POLYMERS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

CHROMOPHORES;

EID: 77954919328     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.35.001813     Document Type: Article

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