Abstract

Polymeric materials have the potential to exceed the increasingly demanding requirements for advanced nonlinear optical (NLO) devices such as intensity modulators and electro-optic switches. The benefits offered by polymeric materials include large optical nonlinearities which can lead to lower operating voltages, and lower dielectric constants necessary for high-speed modulation. Polymeric materials can in principle also be integrated with electrical driving circuits and other optical devices such as semiconductor light sources and detectors.

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