High-performance photorefractive polymer operating at 1550 nm with near-video-rate response time

Savas Tay; Jayan Thomas; Muhsin Eralp; Guoqiang Li; Robert A. Norwood; Axel Schülzgen; Michiharu Yamamoto; Stephen Barlow; Gregory A. Walker; Seth R. Marder; N. Peyghambarian

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High-performance photorefractive polymer operating at 1550 nm with near-video-rate response time

Savas Tay, Jayan Thomas, Muhsin Eralp, Guoqiang Li, Robert A. Norwood, Axel Schülzgen, Michiharu Yamamoto, Stephen Barlow, Gregory A. Walker, Seth R. Marder, N. Peyghambarian

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The development of a high-performance photorefractive polymer composite operating at 1550 nm is reported. We show 40% internal diffraction efficiency with response time of 35 ms and a net gain of 20 cm-1 in four-wave mixing and two-beam coupling experiments, respectively. This is more than an order of magnitude improvement in the diffraction efficiency and net two beam coupling gain and two orders of magnitude in the response time than the previously reported photorefractive polymer operating at this technologically important wavelength. The improvement in photorefractive characteristics is accomplished by an enhanced orientation of the nonlinear optical chromophore in the present composite.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	171105
Pages (from-to)	1-3
Number of pages	3
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	87
Issue number	17
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2117610
State	Published - Oct 24 2005

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High-performance photorefractive polymer operating at 1550 nm with near-video-rate response time

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