Polysulfone as an electro-optic polymer host material
- 16 February 2004
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 84 (7) , 1049-1051
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1646754
Abstract
The practicality of using polysulfone as a host material for electro-opticpolymerdevices is demonstrated. For loadings of 15–25 weight %, r 33 values of 53–55 pm/V were obtained at λ=1.06 μ m . This corresponds to chromophore alignment efficiencies of up to 27%. Also, Mach–Zehnder devices demonstrated the implementation of a polysulfone host with a V π of 6.9 v, optical loss of 1.8 dB/cm, and thermal stability >100 °C.Keywords
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