Thick optical-quality films of substituted polyacetylenes with large, ultrafast third-order nonlinearities and application to image correlation

Chi SH; Hales JM; Fuentes-Hernandez C; Tseng SY; Cho JY; Odom SA; Zhang Q; Barlow S; Schrock RR; Marder SR; Kippelen B; Perry JW

Advanced Materials, Vol.20, No.17, 3199-3199, 2008

DOI10.1002/adma.200800664 Export Citation

Thick optical-quality films of substituted polyacetylenes with large, ultrafast third-order nonlinearities and application to image correlation

Chi SH, Hales JM, Fuentes-Hernandez C, Tseng SY, Cho JY, Odom SA, Zhang Q, Barlow S, Schrock RR, Marder SR, Kippelen B, Perry JW

Ring-opening metathesis polymerization of mono-substituted cyclooctatetraenes is used to form optical-quality films of polyacetylenes with large chi((3)) of up to 2.1 x 10(-10) esu in the near-infrared (1300-1550 nm). Thick films of such materials provide large diffraction efficiencies in ultrafast image-correlation applications.