Nonlinear optical properties of organic and polymeric materials : based on a symposium sponsored by the ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry at the 184th meeting of the American Chemical Society, Kansas City, Missouri, September 12-17, 1982

Content: Molecular optics : nonlinear optical properties of organic and polymeric crystals / A.F. Garito, K.D. Singer, and C.C. Teng -- Design and characterization of molecular and polymeric nonlinear optical materials : successes and pitfalls / Gerald R. Meredith -- Organic materials for optical second harmonic generation / Robert J. Twieg and Kanti Jain -- Nonlinear organic crystals : theoretical concepts, materials, and optical properties / J. Badan, R. Hierle, A. Périgaud, and J. Zyss -- Characterization of liquid crystalline polymers for electro-optic applications / G.R. Meredith, J.G. Vandusen, and D.J. Williams -- Second-order nonlinear media from spiropyran merocyanine quasicrystals / G.R. Meredith, D.J. Williams, S.N. Fishman, E.S. Goldburt, and V.A. Krongauz -- Nonlinear optical interactions in organic crystal cored fibers / B.K. Nayar -- Optical nonlinearities and photoinduced solitons in conjugated polymer crystals / Christos Flytzanis -- Nonlinear optical properties of polydiacetylenes / M.L. Shand and R.R. Chance -- Third-order nonlinear susceptibility in multilayers of polydiacetylene / Gary M. Carter, Yung Jui Chen, and Sukant K. Tripathy -- Epitaxial growth of polydiacetylenes / Scott E. Rickert, Jerome B. Lando, and Stephen Ching -- Nonlinear electro-optic and dielectric properties of flexible polymers / Garo Khanarian and Alan E. Tonelli. Title Page......Page 1 Half Title Page......Page 3 Copyright......Page 4 ACS Symposium Series......Page 5 FOREWORD......Page 6 PdftkEmptyString......Page 0 PREFACE......Page 7 1 Molecular Optics: Nonlinear Optical Properties of Organic and Polymeric Crystals......Page 10 Second Harmonic Generation and Linear Electrooptic Effect in Solids......Page 11 Origin of X(2) and the Second Order Nonlinear Electronic Susceptibility β......Page 14 DC Induced Second Harmonic Generation......Page 16 Theoretical Calculations of β and Charge Correlated π - Electron States......Page 19 Disubstituted Diacetylene Single Crystal Polymers......Page 22 Diacetylene Films and Optical Guided Wave Structures......Page 29 Conclusion......Page 31 Literature Cited......Page 34 2 Design and Characterization of Molecular and Polymeric Nonlinear Optical Materials: Successes and Pitfalls......Page 36 Methods and Evaluation of Second-Order Nonlinearity Preserving Alignments......Page 37 Characterizations by Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Experimentation......Page 44 Conclusion......Page 63 Literature Cited......Page 64 3 Organic Materials for Optical Second Harmonic Generation......Page 66 Typical Organic Nonlinear Materials......Page 68 Molecular Structure and SHG......Page 72 Crystal Structure and SHG......Page 74 Our Approach to the Design of Organic Molecules for SHG......Page 75 Literature Cited......Page 88 Theoretical Concepts......Page 90 Molecular engineering......Page 92 Crystal Engineering and Efficiencies of 3-methyl 4-nitropyridine I-oxide (POM), MAP and N-4-nitrophenylprolinol (NPP)......Page 96 Crystal Growth......Page 103 Acknowledgments......Page 114 Literature Cited......Page 115 5 Characterization of Liquid Crystalline Polymers for Electro-optic Applications......Page 117 Guest Alignment Physics......Page 122 SHG In Thin Film Liquid Crystals......Page 128 Dynamical and Thermal Dependences of Induced SHG......Page 132 Properties of the Liquid Crystalline Host Polymer......Page 136 Conclusion......Page 138 Literature Cited.......Page 140 6 Second-Order Nonlinear Media from Spiropyran Merocyanine Quasicrystals......Page 142 Experimental Methods......Page 144 Results......Page 145 Discussion......Page 149 Conclusions......Page 157 Literature Cited......Page 158 7 Nonlinear Optical Interactions in Organic Crystal Cored Fibers......Page 160 Non-linear Interactions in Waveguides......Page 161 Organic crystal cored fibres......Page 162 Fabrication of benzil crystal cored fibres......Page 164 SHG in crystal cored Fibres......Page 166 Experimental results......Page 169 Conclusions......Page 170 Literature Cited......Page 172 8 Optical Nonlinearities and Photoinduced Solitons in Conjugated Polymer Crystals......Page 174 Main structural and optical properties of conjugated polymers......Page 175 Nonlinear optical susceptibilities......Page 178 Time response of the optical nonlinearities. Solitons.......Page 186 Selective phonon localization and polymerization of diacetylenes......Page 188 Conclusion......Page 190 Literature Cited......Page 191 9 Nonlinear Optical Properties of Polydiacetylenes......Page 193 Material Properties and Linear Optical Properties......Page 196 Nonlinear Optical Properties......Page 198 Literature Cited......Page 217 10 Third-Order Nonlinear Susceptibility in Multilayers of Polydiacetylene......Page 219 Choice of the Monomer and Monomer Synthesis......Page 221 Thin Film Growth and Multilayer Assemblies......Page 222 Measurement Technique......Page 228 Acknowledgments......Page 233 Literature Cited......Page 234 11 Epitaxial Growth of Polydiacetylenes......Page 235 Results and Discussion......Page 236 Conclusion......Page 238 Literature Cited......Page 239 12 Nonlinear Electro-optic and Dielectric Properties of Flexible Polymers......Page 240 Kerr Effect......Page 241 Electric Field Induced Light Scattering......Page 242 Dielectric Polarization and Saturation......Page 244 Electric field Induced Second Harmonic Generation......Page 247 Literature Cited......Page 248 D......Page 250 L......Page 251 N......Page 252 P......Page 253 Z......Page 254