Nonlinear Optical and Electroactive Polymers

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Nonlinear Optical and Electroactive Polymers

   1. Nonlinear Optical and Electroactive Polymers: An Overview

      • Donald R. Ulrich

      Pages 1-11

3. Nonlinear Optical Polymers

   1. Microscopic Origin of Second Order Nonlinear Optical Properties of Organic Structures

      • A. F. Garito, K. Y. Wong, O. Zamani-Khamiri

      Pages 13-39

   2. Design, Ultrastructure, and Dynamics of Nonlinear Optical Effects in Polymeric Thin Films

      • Paras N. Prasad

      Pages 41-67

   3. New Nonlinear Organic Crystals for Ultrafast Infra-red Optical Processing

      • J. Zyss

      Pages 69-105

   4. Electric-Field Poling of Nonlinear Optical Polymers

      • C. S. Willand, S. E. Feth, M. Scozzafava, D. J. Williams, G. D. Green, J. I. Weinschenk III et al.

      Pages 107-120

   5. Frequency and Temperature Variations of Cubic Susceptibility in Polydiacetylenes

      • P. A. Chollet, F. Kajzar, J. Messier

      Pages 121-135

   6. Femtosecond Studies of Dephasing and Phase Conjugation With Incoherent Light

      • Takayoshi Kobayashi, Toshiaki Hattori, Akira Terasaki, Kenji Kurokawa

      Pages 137-155

   7. Studies of Monomer and Polymer Monolayers Using Optical Second and Third Harmonic Generation

      • Garry Berkovic, Y. R. Shen

      Pages 157-168

   8. Development of Polymeric Nonlinear Optical Materials

      • R. N. DeMartino, E. W. Choe, G. Khanarian, D. Haas, T. Leslie, G. Nelson et al.

      Pages 169-187

   9. Orientationally Ordered Electro-Optic Materials

      • K. D. Singer, M. G. Kuzyk, J. E. Sohn

      Pages 189-204

   10. Conformational Transitions in Polydiacetylene Solutions

       • D. G. Peiffer, T. C. Chung, D. N. Schulz, P. K. Agarwal, R. T. Garner, M. W. Kim et al.

       Pages 205-215

   11. Molecular Engineering Approaches to Molecular and Macromolecular Nonlinear Optical Materials: Recent Theoretical and Experimental Results

       • D. Li, J. Yang, C. Ye, M. A. Ratner, G. Wong, T. J. Marks

       Pages 217-228

   12. Poled Copoly(Vinylidene Fluoride-Trifluoroethylene) as a Host for Guest Nonlinear Optical Molecules

       • Philip Pantelis, Julian R. Hill, Graham J. Davies

       Pages 229-241

4. Electroactive Polymers

   1. Electroactive Polymers: Consequenses of Electron Delocalization

      • Larry R. Dalton

      Pages 243-271

   2. Optical Properties of Poly(p-Phenylene Vinylene)

      • Jan Obrzut, Frank E. Karasz

      Pages 273-280

   3. Holes, Electrons, Polarons, and Bipolarons and the Thermodynamics of Electrically Active Dopants in Conducting Polymers

      • H. Reiss, Dai-uk Kim

      Pages 281-301

   4. Transient Current Spectroscopy in Polymeric Films

      • E. Muller-Horsche, D. Haarer, H. Scher

      Pages 303-313

   5. Electrochemistry of Polyaniline: Consideration of a Dimer Model

      • Walter W. Focke, Gary E. Wnek

      Pages 315-324

5. Theory

   1. A PPP Variational-Perturbation Calculation of Hyperpolarizabilities of Conjugated Chains

      • C. P. de Melo, R. Silbey

      Pages 325-329

This treatise is a compendium of papers based on invited talks presented at the American Chemical Society Symposium on Electroactive Polymers which covered nonlinear optical polymers and conducting polymers, the common denominator being the correlated pi-electron structures. The improved understanding of the consequences of pi-electron delocalization upon nonlinear optical properties and charge carrier dynamics has laid the foundation for the rapid development and application of the electroresponse of conjugated polymers. As a result, the area of electroactive and nonlinear optical polymers is emerging as a frontier of sCience and technology. It is a multidisciplinary field that is bringing together scientists and engineers of varied background to interface their expertise. The recent explosion of interest in this area stems from the prospect of utilizing nonlinear optical effects for optical switching and logic operations in optical computing, optical signal processing, optical sensing and optical fiber communications. Polymers and organic are rapidly becoming one of the major material classes for nonlinear optical applications along with multiple quantum wells, ferroelectrics and other oxides, and direct band-gap semiconductors. The reasons for this lie in the unique molecular structures of polymers and organics and the ability to molecularly engineer the architecture of these structures through chemical synthesis.

• Carrier
• Chemical synthesis
• chemistry
• electrochemistry
• electrons
• processing
• spectroscopy
• thermodynamics

• State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA

  Paras N. Prasad

• Air Force Office of Scientific Research, USA

  Donald R. Ulrich

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