• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.23 no.7
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• pp.964-970
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• 2002

We synthesized three kinds of chromophores incorporating aromatic quinoline unit as a $\pi-conjugated$ bridge in order to prepare more thermally stable nonlinear optical (NLO) chromophores than general stilbene unit. The NLO poly(methylmethacrylate) copolymer, polyimides, and polyester were successfully synthesized by these corresponding quinoline-based monomers. Their physical and optical properties were investigated by thermogravimetry, gel permeation chromatography, ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy, second harmonic generation (SHG) and electro-optic (EO) measurement. All the polymers exhibited better thermal stability,however their NLO activity was a little lower than that of general stilbene-based NLO polymers. Among three kinds of polymers, the PMMA copolymer with quinoline chromophores had the largest SHG coefficient d33 value of 27 pm/V (at 1.064 $\mu\textrm{m})$ and EO coefficient r33 value of 6.8 pm/V (at 1.3 $\mu\textrm{m}$).

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.198-203
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• 1997

Two different carbazolylnitrostilbene chromophores with second-order nonlinear optical (NLO) activity were newly synthesized by the reaction of 9-(2-hydroxyethyl)-9H-carbazol-3-carbaldehyde with 4-nitrophenylacetonitrile or 4-nitrophenylacetic acid. The NLO monomers were obtained by reaction of these chromophores with methacryloyl chloride. The side-chain nonlinear optical polymers were synthesized by the copolymerization of NLO monomer with methylmethacrylate using a free radical initiator. The chemical structures of the polymers were identified by spectroscopic means and the polymer properties such as molecular weight, Tg, solubility, UV-visible absorption, and second-harmonic generation (SHG) coefficients were investigated.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1995.06a
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• pp.161-168
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• 1995

Nonlinear optical absorption in solid films of poly(3-octyl thiophene) (P3OT) sensitized with methanofullerene was inverstigated for wacelengths from 620 to 960nm. The nonlinear absorption is ehnanced over that in either of the component materials by more than two orders orders of magitude at 760nm. The large nonlinearity results from effient photoinduced interm olecular charge transfer from P3OT to methanofullerene, followed by absorption in the charge separated excited state. P3OT/fullerene films are promising as reverse saturable absorbers and the optical limiting performance is demonstrated at 760nm.

• Proceedings of the Polymer Society of Korea Conference
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• 2006.10a
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• pp.165-165
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• 2006

We prepared nonlinear optical (NLO) polymers possessing thermal and temporal stability, which were based on the polyimides appended with NLO chromophores. NLO chromophores with a terminal hydroxyl group have been synthesized by coupling between aminobenzene or julolidine donor and phenylene bridge, and then subsequent coupling between the resulting product and tricyanofuran acceptor. The chromophores were chemically bonded to the polyimides backbone through Mitsunobu reaction. The NLO polymers showed $160-170^{\circ}C$ of Tgs and were thermally stable up to $200^{\circ}C$. We obtained optical quality films by spincoating and evaluated their electro-optical properties and temporal stability.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2001.08a
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• pp.6-7
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• 2001

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.336-340
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• 1995

3',5'-Dimethoxy-4'-(2-vinyloxyethoxy)-4-nitrostilbene 2 and 3',5'-dimethoxy-4'-(2-vinyloxyethoxy)-2,4-dinitrostilbene 5 were prepared by the reactions of 2-iodoethyl vinyl ether with 3',5'-dimethoxy-4'-hydroxy-4-dinitrostilbene 1 and 3',5'-dimethoxy-4'-hydroxy-2,4-dinitrostilbene 4, respectively. Monomers 2 and 5 were polymerized with cationic initiators to obtain polymers with 3',5'-dimethoxy-4'-oxy-4-nitrostilbene and 3',5'-dimethoxy-4'-oxy-2,4-nitrostilbene, which are presumably effective chromophores for second-order nonlinear optical application in the side chain. The resulting polymers 3 and 6 were soluble in DMSO and DMF. The inherent viscosities of the polymers were in the range of 0.28-0.33 dL/g in DMSO. Polymers 3 and 6 showed a thermal stability up to 250 ℃ in TGA thermogram, and the Tg values obtained from DSC thermograms were in the range of 81-87°.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.259-269
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• 2002

Polymers are emerging as new alternative materials for optical communication devices. We developed two types of polymer-based devices for optical communications. One type is for ultra high-speed signal processing that uses nonlinear optical (NLO) polymers in such devices as electro-optic (EO) Mach-Z${\ddot{e}} $ hnder (MZ) modulators and EO 2${\times}$2 switches. The other is for WDM optical communications that use low-loss optical polymers in such devices as 1${\times}$2, 2${\times}$2, 4-arrayed 2${\times}$2 digital optical switches (DOSs) and 16${\times}$16 arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) routers. For these devices, we synthesized a polyetherimide-disperse red 1 (PEI-DR1) side chain NLO polymer and a low-loss optical polymer known as fluorinated polyaryleneethers (FPAE). This paper presents the details of our development of these polymeric photonic devices considering all aspects from materials to packaging.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Potoscience Conference
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• spring
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• pp.18-18
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• 1998

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 1993.11a
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• pp.90-92
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• 1993

PM3 semiempirical calculations ions have performed on the three aromatic heterocyclic polymers. The dipole moment (${\mu}$7), static 1st-orders(${\alpha}$), 2nd-order (${\beta}$), and 3rd-order polarizabilities(${\gamma}$) were investigated to study the nonlinear optical properties of the polythiophene, polyfuran, and polypyrrole systems. As a function of n, ${\alpha}$ and ${\gamma}$ increases much more rapidly for the polythiophene systems than for the polyfuran and Polypyrrole systems due to the pi-electron delocalization.

• Polymer Science and Technology
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.679-689
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• 1996