Self-assembled materials and devices that process light

Peiwang Zhu; Hu Kang; Milko E. van der Boom; Zhifu Liu; Guoyang Xu; Jing Ma; Delai Zhou; Seng-Tiong Ho; Tobin Jay Marks

doi:10.1117/12.580602

16 December 2004 Self-assembled materials and devices that process light

Peiwang Zhu, Hu Kang, Milko E. van der Boom, Zhifu Liu, Guoyang Xu, Jing Ma, Delai Zhou, Seng-Tiong Ho, Tobin Jay Marks

Proceedings Volume 5621, Optical Materials in Defence Systems Technology; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.580602
Event: European Symposium on Optics and Photonics for Defence and Security, 2004, London, United Kingdom

Abstract

Self-assembled superlattices (SASs) are intrinsically acentric and highly cross-linked structures. For organic electro-optics, they offer great advantages such as not requiring electric field poling for creating an acentric, EO-active microstructure and having excellent chemical, thermal, and orientational stabilities. In this paper, a greatly improved two-step all "wet-chemical" self-assembly (SA) approach is reported. Excellent radiation hardness of the SAS films is demonstrated by high-energy proton irradiation experiments. By introducing metal oxide nanolayers during SA, we show that the refractive indices of SAS films can be tuned over a wide range. Through special chromophore design, the optical absorption maxima of SAS films can also be greatly blue-shifted. Prototype waveguiding electro-optic modulators have been fabricated using the SAS films integrated with low-loss polymeric materials functioning as partial guiding and cladding layers. EO parameters such as the half-wave voltage and the effective electro-optic coefficient are reported.

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Peiwang Zhu, Hu Kang, Milko E. van der Boom, Zhifu Liu, Guoyang Xu, Jing Ma, Delai Zhou, Seng-Tiong Ho, and Tobin Jay Marks "Self-assembled materials and devices that process light", Proc. SPIE 5621, Optical Materials in Defence Systems Technology, (16 December 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.580602

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