Quasirelaxation-free guest-host poled-polymer waveguide modulator: material, technology, and characterization

R. Pinsard-Levenson; Julienne Liang; Eric Toussaere; Alain Carenco; Joseph Zyss

doi:10.1117/12.50743

1 December 1991 Quasirelaxation-free guest-host poled-polymer waveguide modulator: material, technology, and characterization

R. Pinsard-Levenson, Julienne Liang, Eric Toussaere, Alain Carenco, Joseph Zyss

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Proceedings Volume 1560, Nonlinear Optical Properties of Organic Materials IV; (1991) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.50743
Event: San Diego, '91, 1991, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

The linear optical and electro-optical properties of new guest-host poled polymeric thin films are reported based on combined ellipsometric and modulated reflection measurements. Wavelength dispersion of the electro-optic coefficient and comparison between second harmonic generation and electro-optic coefficients are in keeping with a two-level model of the quadratic nonlinearities. The large extension of the conjugated systems may account for the remarkable quasi-absence of relaxation of the electro-optic coefficient over a period of months, when incorporated in PMMA. Operation of a waveguide phase modulator has been demonstrated at 1064 nm in a multilayer strip waveguide architecture over a GaAs substrate, and shown to correspond to r33 equals 1.76 pm/V. Further optimization is underway.

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R. Pinsard-Levenson, Julienne Liang, Eric Toussaere, Alain Carenco, and Joseph Zyss "Quasirelaxation-free guest-host poled-polymer waveguide modulator: material, technology, and characterization", Proc. SPIE 1560, Nonlinear Optical Properties of Organic Materials IV, (1 December 1991); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.50743

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