Abstract
Because of the large variety of materials and material forms available, organic materials are attractive candidates for ultrafast nonlinear optical signal processing systems based on the intensity-dependent index of refraction, i.e., the change of index of refraction with a change in applied optical intensity. As an example, we consider an organic polymeric system, the polydi-acetylenes. Through molecular engineering (organic synthesis and Langmuir-Blodgett film growth combined with monolayer deposition techniques), the polydiacetylene was prepared in the technologically important format of a planar waveguide on a grating. By measuring the change in the angle that the incident laser radiation couples into the guided-wave mode (via the grating) with the change in intensity of the laser radiation, we determined the intensity-dependent index of refraction to be 10-6 (MW/cm2)-1 in the transparent region of the material. Implications of this reseach for future work related to signal processing applications are discussed.
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