Relative electrical resistivities and poling of nonlinear optical polymeric waveguides

Tomas Pliska (1) , Joachim Meier (1) , Arne Eckau (1) , Vincent Ricci (1) , Anne-Claire Le Duff (2, 1) , Michael Canva (1, 2) , G.I. Stegeman (1) , Paul Raimond (3) , F. Kajzar (3) , Kwok Pong Chan (4)

1 CREOL - Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers
2 Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique / Macsybio
3 CEA - Laboratoire Cellules et Composants, LITEN-DSEN/GENEC, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique/Saclay,
4 MOEC - Molecular OptoElectronics Corporation

A method based on Maker fringe measurements of nonlinear optical coefficients has been used to determine the relative dc electrical resistivities of a series of linear and nonlinear optical polymers. The method can be used to identify low resistivity linear cladding materials for optimized electric field poling of nonlinear optical polymeric waveguides. As an example of the application of the technique we have studied the resistivity of poly(methyl methacrylate)-polystyrene (PMMA-PS) copolymers with varying content of the two components. The resistivity of PMMA was found to be one order of magnitude lower than that of PS

Domaines: Optique [physics.optics]

Tomas Pliska, Joachim Meier, Arne Eckau, Vincent Ricci, Anne-Claire Le Duff, et al.. Relative electrical resistivities and poling of nonlinear optical polymeric waveguides. Applied Physics Letters, 2000, 76 (3), pp.265-267. ⟨10.1063/1.125742⟩. ⟨hal-00668011⟩