Polymers for Second-Order Nonlinear Optics

Content: Second-order nonlinear optical polymers : an overview / Geoffrey A. Lindsay -- Design and properties of high-temperature second-order optical chromophores / R.F. Shi, S. Yamada, M.H. Wu, Y.M. Cai, O. Zamani-Khamiri, and A.F. Garito -- Hyperpolarizabilities of push-pull polyenes : molecular orbital and valence-bond charge-transfer models / J.W. Perry, S.R. Marder, F. Meyers, D. Lu, G. Chen, W.A. Goddard, III, J.L. Brédas, and B.M. Pierce -- Solvent effects on the molecular quadratic hyperpolarizabilites / I.D.L. Albert, S. di Bella, D.R. Kanis, T.J. Marks, and M.A. Ratner -- Characterization of nonlinear optical chromophores in solution / Christopher R. Moylan, Robert D. Miller, Robert J. Twieg, and Victor Y. Lee -- Experimental and theoretical investigation of the second-order optical properties of the chromophore retinal and its derivatives : modeling the bacteriorhodopsin binding pocket / E. Hendrickx, C. Dehu, K. Clays, J.L. Brédas, and A. Persoons -- Design and synthesis of thermally stable chromophores with low absorption at device operating wavelengths / Susan Ermer, Steven M. Lovejoy, and Doris S. Leung -- Thermally stable nonlinear optical moiety-doped polyimides for photonic devices / H.K. Kim, H.J. Lee, M.H. Lee, S.K. Han, H.Y. Kim, K.H. Kang, Y.H. Min, and Y.H. Won -- Design and synthesis of a polar dipyrromethene dye / M.B. Meinhardt, P.A. Cahill, T.C. Kowalczyk, and K.D. Singer -- High-temperature nonlinear polyimides for [chi]⁽²⁾ applications / R.D. Miller, D.M. Burland, M. Jurich, V.Y. Lee, C.R. Moylan, R.J. Twieg, J. Thackara, T. Verbiest, W. Volksen, and C.A. Walsh -- Highly efficient and thermally stable second-order nonlinear optical chromophores and electrooptic polymers / Alex K.-Y. Jen, Varanasi Pushkara Rao, and Jayaraman Chandrasekhar -- Techniques of ultrastructure synthesis relevant to the fabrication of electrooptic modulators / L.R. Dalton, B. Wu, A.W. Harper, R. Ghosn, Y. Ra, Z. Liang, R. Montgomery, S. Kalluri, Y. Shi, W.H. Steier, and Alex K.-Y. Jen -- Development of functionalized polyimides for second-order nonlinear optics / Dong Yu, Zhonghua Peng, Ali Gharavi, and Luping Yu -- Advances in main-chain syndioregic nonlinear optical polymers / J.D. Stenger-Smith, R.A. Henry, A.P. Chafin, L.H. Merwin, R.A. Nissan, R.Y. Yee, M.P. Nadler, G.A. Lindsay, L.M. Hayden, S. Brower, N. Mokal, D. Kokron, W.N. Herman, and P. Ashley -- Second-order nonlinear optical interpenetrating polymer networks / S. Marturunkakul, J.I. Chen, L. Li, X.L. Jiang, R.J. Jeng, S.K. Sengupta, J. Kumar, and S.K. Tripathy -- Aromatic heterocyclic rings as active components in the design of second-order nonlinear optical chromophores / Bruce A. Reinhardt, Ram Kannan, Jay C. Bhatt, Jarek Zieba, and Paras N. Prasad -- Nonlinear optical properties of poly(1,4-phenylenevinylene) and its derivatives / Jung-Il Jin and Hong-Ku Shim -- All-optical poling of polymers for phase-matched frequency doubling / J.M. Nunzi, C. Fiorini, F. Charra, F. Kajzar, and P. Raimond -- Photo-induced poling of polar azo dyes in polymeric films : toward second-order applications / Z. Sekkat, E.F. Aust, and W. Knoll -- Determination of the second harmonic coefficients of birefringent poled polymers / Warren N. Herman and L. Michael Hayden -- Stark spectroscopy as a tool for the characterization of poled polymers for nonlinear optics / M.I. Barnik, L.M. Blinov, T. Weyrauch, S.P. Palto, A.A. Tevosov, and W. Haase -- Pyroelectrical investigation of nonlinear optical polymers with uniform or patterned dipole orientation / S. Bauer, S. Bauer-Gogonea, Ş. Ylmaz, W. Wirges, and R. Gerhard-Multhaupt -- Quantitative, rational predictions of the long-term temporal decay properties of second-order nonlinear optical polymers from the analysis of relaxation dynamics / Ali Dhinojwala, Jacob C. Hooker, and John M. Torkelson -- Optical damage in nonlinear optical polymer waveguides / K. Song, M. Mortazavi, and H. Yoons -- Polyimides for electrooptic applications / P. Kaatz, P. Prêtre, U. Meier, P. Günter, B. Zysset, M. Anlheim, M. Stähelin, and F. Lehr -- Electrooptic cardo-type polymers with high glass-transition temperatures / Chengjiu Wu, Charles Knapp, Victor Lu, Michael J. McFarland, Ajay Nahata, Jianhui Shan, and James T. Yardley -- Nonlinear optical activity relaxation energetics in a polyether thermoplastic nonlinear optical polymer with a high glass-transition temperature / Robert J. Gulotty, Claude D. Hall, Michael J. Mullins, Anthony P. Haag, Stephen E. Bales, Daniel R. Miller, Charles A. Berglund, Marabeth S. LaBarge, Andrew J. Pasztor, Jr., Mark A. Chartier, and Kimberly A. Hazard -- Guest-host cross-linked polyimides for integrated optics / T.C. Kowalczyk, T.Z. Kosc, K.D. Singer, A.J. Beuhler, D.A. Wargowski, P.A. Cahill, C.H. Seager, and M.B. Meinhardt -- Bifunctional dyes for cross-linked nonlinear optical polymers / Kenneth M. White, Elisa M. Cross, Cecil V. Francis, and Robert S. Moshrefzadeh -- Integration of electrooptic polymers in optoelectronic devices / R. Lytel, A.J. Ticknor, and G.F. Lipscomb -- Polymer electrooptic waveguide fabrication / M. Ziari, A. Chen, S. Kalluri, W.H. Steier, Y. Shi, W. Wang, D. Chen, and H.R. Fetterman -- Advances in organic polymer-based optoelectronics / R. Levenson, J. Liang, C. Rossier, R. Hierle, E. Toussaere, N. Bouadma, and J. Zyss -- Electrooptic polymer Mach-Zehnder modulators : high-speed analog and digital considerations / D.G. Girton, W.W. Anderson, J.F. Valley, T.E. Van Eck, L.J. Dries, J.A. Marley, and S. Ermer -- Second harmonic generation by counter-directed guided waves in poled polymer waveguides / A. Otomo, G.I. Stegeman, W. Horsthuis, and G. Möhlmann -- Second harmonic femtosecond pulse generation in nonlinear polymer thin-film structures / Andrew Dienes, Erkin Sidick, Richard A. Hill, and André Knoesen -- Periodic domain inversion in thin nonlinear optical polymer films for second harmonic generation / G. Khanarian and M.A. Mortazavi -- Cascading of second-order nonlinearities : concepts, materials, and devices / William E. Torruellas, Dug Y. Kim, Matthias Jaeger, Gijs Krijnen, Roland Schiek, George I. Stegeman, Petar Vidakovic, and Joseph Zyss.