Recent advances in photorefractive polymer materials

William E. Moerner; Anders Grunnet-Jepsen; C. L. Thompson; Matthew S. Bratcher; Robert J. Twieg

doi:10.1117/12.284256

13 October 1997 Recent advances in photorefractive polymer materials

William E. Moerner, Anders Grunnet-Jepsen, C. L. Thompson, Matthew S. Bratcher, Robert J. Twieg

Proceedings Volume 3147, Nonlinear Optical Properties of Organic Materials X; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.284256
Event: Optical Science, Engineering and Instrumentation '97, 1997, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

This paper summarizes current research to develop photorefractive polymeric materials with improved speed, material stability, and high beam coupling gain. The recent demonstration of significantly improved two-beam coupling marks the entry into a gain regime which enables the observation of new effects for the first time, such as beam fanning and self-pumped phase-conjugation. These effects have previously been observed only in a few thick high gain inorganic photorefractive crystals. The large beam coupling forces the reinterpretation of such traditional characterization techniques such as the grating translation method for the determination of the spatial phase of the index grating. Our subsequent material study focuses on several compositional variations to investigate the effect on the photorefractive performance of varying the chromophore and charge transporting polymer.

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William E. Moerner, Anders Grunnet-Jepsen, C. L. Thompson, Matthew S. Bratcher, and Robert J. Twieg "Recent advances in photorefractive polymer materials", Proc. SPIE 3147, Nonlinear Optical Properties of Organic Materials X, (13 October 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.284256

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