Abstract
Ultra-fast optical intensity modulators are required for high speed telecommunications and organic electro-optical materials offer the advantages of low cost and fast switching capability. We propose a new method to fabricate electro-optical waveguide modulators using low temperature processing and poling with low electric field strength. Our method uses nematic photoreactive mesogens with large second-order polarisability and low viscosity. They can be poled with an electric field of low strength and simultaneously photopolymerised to maintain polar order. A nematic mixture with a melting point of 30°C was successfully crosslinked when aligned by an electric field. New tolane based chromophores show second order polarisabilities up to 180 × 10−30 esu, ten times the value of para-nitroaniline.
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