In this work we report on hybrid organic/inorganic sol-gel based optical waveguides in slab configuration grown both on glass and silicon substrates by spin-coating process. The samples were obtained using Zr(IV)-propoxide as inorganic precursor and 3-glycidoxypropyltrimethoxisilane (GLYMO) as organic component in molar ratio of 3/1. Optical characterization of each layer has been accomplished performing refractive index measurements at different wavelengths in the visible and near infrared regions using an home-made experimental setup developed in our laboratory. Measurements have evidenced a difference between the in-plane and out-of-plane refractive index. We found that the amount of the optical anisotropy depends on the speed of spinning deposition and on the curing temperature. In particular the anisotropy increases with the increasing of speed deposition and with the increasing of curing temperature. Results were also confirmed by spectroscopic ellipsometric measurements. We attributed the optical anisotropy to a preferential orientation of the organic groups of the alkoxysilane precursor (GLYMO) during spin coating deposition.
Guest-host polymer system with potential use in electro-optic devices is discussed. The polymer host is a polyimide and the guest chromophore is Disperse Red 19 (DR 19). Decay times of poled order after corona poling procedure have been derived from the behaviour at elevated temperatures below glass transition temperature Tg using Arrhenius plots. An extrapolated lifetime greater than 30 years at room temperature has been obtained.
In this work we report on the preliminary results of compatibility, fabrication and characterization of two planar polymeric multilayer structures for electro-optic applications. The structures are composed by three polymeric layers grown on glass substrate. Buffer and cladding layers were synthesized using polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA). The guiding layers were composed by Polysulfone (PSU) and by a mixture of PMMA and polycarbonate (PC) both doped with Disperse Red 1 (DR1) molecules as nonlinear active units. Linear and nonlinear optical characterization of the structures by refractive index, absorption, optical losses, Second Harmonic Generation (SHG) and time stability measurements have been carried out.
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