Abstract
The optical properties of polythiophene have generated widespread interest. Because this material shows high electronic conductivity by doping and demonstrate large third-order optical nonlinearity |/spl chi//sup (3)/|, it may be applicable as an active material in electro-optical devices. Recently, we reported the enhancement of third-order optical nonlinearity in poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) by the control of regularity in the polymeric structure. The enhancement is due to increasing the conjugation length. In the present study, we use the thin films of poly(3-[2-(S)-2-methylbutoxy)ethyl]thiophene which is expected to have large conjugation length. We measured |/spl chi//sup (3)/|I at excitonic resonance using degenerate four-wave mixing, and estimate the conjugation length of samples.
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