The role of intermolecular interactions in fabricating hardened electro-optic materials

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 10290, Issue , 1997, Pages 313-321

  Dalton, Larry R ^a   Harper, Aaron W ^a   Chen, Jinghong ^a   Sun, Shajing ^a   Mao, Shane ^a   Garner, Sean ^b   Chen, Antao ^b   Steier, William H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

Electro optic polymers; Figure of merit; Lattice hardening; London forces; Molecular hyperpolizability; Poling induced order

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; ELECTROSTATICS; FRACTURE; HARDENING; INTEGRATED OPTICS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL LATTICES; PHASE SEPARATION; PHOTONIC DEVICES; POLYMERS; SOL-GEL PROCESS; SOL-GELS;

ELECTRO-OPTIC POLYMERS; FIGURE OF MERITS; INDUCED ORDER; LONDON FORCES; MOLECULAR HYPERPOLIZABILITY;

CHROMOPHORES;

EID: 85034298847     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.279822     Document Type: Conference Paper

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