基于分子间侧向氢键作用的电光材料制备及性能

通过重氮耦合和酯化等反应制备了一系列侧向含有酰胺基团的偶氮苯类非线性光学生色团, 并将其与聚合物进行掺杂或通过分子间的侧向氢键作用制备了主客体型及超分子型的电光薄膜材料. 生色团的结构通过核磁共振谱(¹H NMR, NMR)、 红外光谱(IR)、 质谱(MS)和元素分析(EA)等进行了表征, 结果表明, 生色团形成了分子间的氢键作用. 通过紫外-可见(UV-Vis) 光谱研究了材料的极化性能. 相比主客体型电光薄膜材料, 由分子间侧向氢键作用形成的超分子型电光薄膜材料无需与聚合物基体材料复合, 更有利于提高材料的生色团含量、 极化取向度及稳定性. 通过Teng-Man简单反射法研究了主客体型和超分子型电光材料的二阶非线性光学性质, 结果表明, 基于分子间侧向氢键作用形成的超分子体系具有更大的电光系数.     

电光高分子材料的最新研究进展

电光高分子材料由于其在光电子信息领域的潜在应用前景已得到了广泛关注和深入研究.本文在简要介绍电光效应及其材料等相关知识的基础上,综述了最近几年来电光高分子材料的研究进展,主要包括生色团的设计与合成,以及掺杂型、侧链型、主链型、交联型、互穿网络型和树枝型等聚合物材料体系的设计与合成.     

枝化苯胺-吡咯啉发色团的合成及其电光性质的研究

为了减少发色团偶极相互作用,在二阶非线性发色团苯胺-吡咯啉分子的受体吡咯啉的N原子上分别接入三种不同的枝化基团,将其高μβ值有效转化为高电光性能.研究了三种枝化发色团的电光性能和相关化学物理性质,比较了不同枝化基团对发色团的综合性能的影响.结果表明,枝化基团的接入引起发色团分子的紫外吸收红移,枝化基团修饰的发色团,改善了苯胺-吡咯啉发色团分子与聚碳酸酯(APC)的相容性,并明显减少了发色团偶极静电相互作用,提高了发色团在电场下的极化效率,使其在聚碳酸酯(APC)薄膜中的极化序列参数可高达44%.并测得当枝化发色团在APC中掺杂的含量为9%时,聚合物体系电光系数高达75 pm/V(1315 nm激光测定).     

电晕极化电光聚合物调制器的制备研究

随着光通信的飞速发展,高速聚合物电光调制器的应用更加重要广泛.聚合物薄膜是制造聚合物电光调制器的基础.文中介绍与分析了聚合物电光调制器聚合物薄膜的电晕极化制备方法.     

基于氢键的侧链型超分子电光聚合物的制备与表征

设计并制备了一种基于氢键的侧链型超分子聚乙烯基吡啶电光聚合物,非线性发色团与聚合物主链之间的氢键作用经红外光谱进行表征。采用氢键将发色团挂接到聚合物,可一定程度地抑制发色团分子的聚集,防止宏观相分离,实现发色团的高浓度掺杂。同时,利用超分子氢键作用挂接也可在一定程度上抑制发色团间的偶极-偶极相互作用力,测得此体系极化电光聚合物薄膜的最大电光系数为17.6 pm/V。     

极化聚合物电光材料研究进展

极化聚合物由于其在集成光电子学领域的潜在应用前景已经引起了广泛关注。本文在简要介绍电光调制器及其材料有关知识的基础上,综述了近几年来极化聚合物电光材料的研究进展,主要介绍发色团和聚合物的设计、合成、并对这类材料将来的发展方向作了探讨。     

树枝状电光材料研究进展

电光材料是以光子为载体的新一代信息材料. 目前, 研究的焦点主要集中在树枝状电光材料. 综述了近几年树枝状电光材料的研究进展, 主要包括树枝状电光大分子、树枝状电光高分子以及超分子自组装电光聚合物.     

电光高分子研究进展

电光高分子是二阶非线性光学材料的重要组成部分,目前的研究重点主要在于合成具有高二阶非线性光学效应和取向稳定性以及低光学损耗的电光高分子,以满足高性能光学器件的制作要求。最近,电光高分子的设计与合成已经取得了很大的进展,例如结合"位分离"原理,利用高分子良好的加工性,获得了一些具有较好综合性能的高分子,可以较为有效地将小分子发色团的高β值转换为高分子大的宏观电光效应。本文综述了近几年来电光高分子的研究进展,主要包括线型电光高分子、树枝状电光高分子和超支化高分子。     

异氰酸酯交联的环氧树脂基二阶非线性光学聚合物

通过双酚A 二 (缩水甘油醚 )与苯胺的逐步聚合反应合成环氧树脂类先驱聚合物BPAN ,进一步通过先驱聚合物的后重氮偶合反应 ,制备了侧链带偶氮生色团的二阶非线性光学聚合物BPAN 1A NT .将BPAN 1A NT与适当量的异氰酸酯交联剂M2 0S混合 ,得到了双组分非线性光学聚合物体系BPAN 1A NT M2 0S .该体系在电场极化的同时可发生交联固化 ,极化后其二阶非线性光学系数高达 10 5 2pm v(λ =1 0 6 4 μm) ,同时还具有很好的极化偶极取向稳定性 ,2 0 0℃时的非线性光学系数仍可维持在初始的 80 %以上 .上述双组分非线性光学聚合物材料 (BPAN 1A NT M2 0S)同时具有高二阶非线性光学系数和高极化偶极取向稳定温度 ,可以预期 ,在聚合物电光调制器、光开关等器件中将有很好的应用前景 .     

枝化二阶非线性发色团分子的合成及在聚合物体系中的电光性能

设计合成了一类以2-二氰基次甲基-3-氰基-4,5,5-三甲基-2,5-二氢呋喃(TCF)为受体、己氧基取代噻吩为π电子桥的新型有机非线性光学化合物, 并利用紫外光谱、红外光谱、核磁共振以及质谱对化合物分子结构进行了鉴定, 同时对此类化合物在有机聚合物体系中的电光性能进行了表征和研究. 结果发现, 该类发色团分子与聚合物相容性好, 电光活性高, 并且随着发色团分子在聚合物体系中浓度的升高, 聚合物体系的宏观电光活性也有所提高, 甚至当发色团的掺杂质量分数高达47.2%时, 体系的电光活性仍呈上升趋势, 显示了该发色团的静电相互作用得到了明显抑制. 此时测得聚合物体系的电光系数为30 pm/V(1310 nm).     

Synthesis and characterization of a novel nonlinear optical hyperbranched polymer containing a highly performing chromophore

We report herein the peripheral functionalization of a high glass transition temperature hyperbranched polyimide with a new and highly performing electro‐optic chromophore for the elaboration of a second‐order nonlinear optical material. In this study, the CPO1 chromophore was selected for its very high quadratic hyperpolarizability coefficient (μβ = 31,000 ? 10^?48 esu at 1990 nm) and its ease of synthesis in multigram scale. As a result, the new electro‐optic polymer was characterized by an r₃₃ coefficient around 40 pm/V at 1.5 µm, although the poling conditions were not optimized. For sake of comparison, the electro‐optic r₃₃ coefficient of our previously reported similar polymer functionalized with the well‐known Disperse Red One chromophore was also measured using the technique and gave a much lower r₃₃ coefficient. This study underscores that hyperbranched polymers are particularly promising matrices to host highly efficient chromophore to achieve more efficient and more stable electro‐optic devices than classical linear polymers. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Nonlinear optical side‐chain polymers post‐functionalized with high‐β chromophores exhibiting large electro‐optic property

Electro‐optic side‐chain polymers have been synthesized by the post‐functionalization of methacrylate isocyanate polymers with novel phenyl vinylene thiophene vinylene bridge (FTC) nonlinear optical chromophores. For this application, FTC‐based chromophores were modified in their electronic donor structure, exhibiting much larger molecular hyperpolarizabilities compared with the benchmark FTC. Of these new chromophores, absorption spectra, hyper‐Rayleigh scattering experiment, and thermal analysis were carried out to confirm availability as effective nonlinear optical units for electro‐optic side‐chain polymers. The electro‐optic coefficients (r₃₃) of obtained polymers were investigated in the process of in situ poling by monitoring the temperature, current flow, poling field, and electro‐optic signal. Compared with the nonsubstituted analogue, benxyloxy modified FTC chromophore significantly achieved higher nonlinear optical property, exhibiting molecular hyperpolarizability at 1.9 μm of 4600 × 10^?30 esu and an r₃₃ value of 150 pm/V at the wavelength of 1.31 μm. Synthesized electro‐optic polymers showed high glass transition temperature (T_g), so that the temporal stability examination exhibited >78% of the electro‐optic intensity remaining at 85 °C over 500 h. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem, 2010     

Synthesis and electrooptic properties of side‐chain methacrylate polymers containing a new azophenylbenzoxazole chromophore

The synthesis and characterization of four methacrylate copolymers obtained by radical addition polymerization of methyl methacrylate as well as a new methacrylate azophenylbenzoxazole chromophore in percentages of 10, 30, 50, and 70% were explored. The copolymers were amorphous and showed glass‐transition temperatures ranging from 132 to 146 °C. High‐quality polymer films were easily obtained by spin coating from N‐methylpyrrolidone solutions. Polymer films spun cast on iridium tin oxide (ITO) substrates were used in the electro‐optic (EO) experiments to evaluate the EO coefficients r₃₃ using the reflection technique. The measured values fell in the range of 1.7–3.7 pm/V (laser incident wavelength of 1.552 μm) depending on the percentage of chromophore in the polymer. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Polym Sci A: Polym Chem 39: 1162–1168, 2001     

Large electro‐optic activity and enhanced temporal stability of methacrylate‐based crosslinking hyperbranched nonlinear optical polymer

A methacrylate‐based crosslinking hyperbranced polymers have been synthesized through initiator‐fragment incorporation radical polymerization and used for the temperature stable electro‐optic (EO) polymer application. This polymer consists of methyl methacrylate, 2‐metacryloxyethyl isocyanate, and ethylene glycol dimethacrylate (EGDMA) monomers. The use of EGDMA as a bifunctional unit resulted in the solvent‐soluble crosslinking hyperbranched chain, so that the EO polymer enhanced glass transition temperatures. A phenyl vinylene thiophene vinylene bridge nonlinear optical chromophore was attached to the polymer backbone as the side‐chain by a post‐functionalization reaction. The loading concentration of the chromophore was varied between 30 and 50 wt % by simply changing the mixing ratio of the precursor polymer to the chromophore. The synthesized EO polymers produced optical quality films with a light propagation loss of 0.61 dB/cm in a slab waveguide at 1.31 μm. The electrically poled film had an EO coefficient (r₃₃) of 139 pm/V at 1.31 μm. The EO crosslinking hyperbranced polymer had a high‐glass transition temperature of 170 °C, and exhibited excellent temporal stability of the EO activity at 85 °C for 500 h. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem, 2012     

Linear and branched fluoroazo‐benzene chromophores with increased compatibility in semifluorinated polymers

A family of fluorinated azobenzene‐based push‐pull chromophores with one, two, and three trifluorovinyl ether (TFV) groups in linear and branched architecture was synthesized and utilized as active materials in the low optical loss electro‐optic (EO) composites. The fluorinated azobenzene chromophores exhibited increased solubility (30–50 wt %) in semifluorinated polymer host, such as perfluorocyclobutane (PFCB) aromatic ether resin after crosslinking, compared with the commercially available nonfluorinated azobenzene chromophore Disperse Red 1 (1–2 wt %). The impact of this approach on the optical properties on the polymer blends is assessed through optical propagation loss measurements and EO characterization. The resulting fluorinated EO composites showed excellent optical clarity, low birefringence, and low optical loss less than 0.5 dB/cm, while giving EO coefficients of about 3–7 pm/V at 1550 nm. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 45: 3166–3177, 2007     

Molecular design of nonlinear optical polymer based on DCM to enhance the NLO efficiency and thermal stability

This study synthesized and characterized a novel series of polyurethanes containing nonlinear optic (NLO) chromophores, which possess different dimensional or various isolation‐groups. These chromophores are based on 4‐(dicyanomethylene)‐2‐methyl‐6‐(p‐(dimethylamino)styryl)‐4H‐pyran (DCM‐typed dye). The NLO polyurethane containing a one‐dimensional isolation‐group of chromophores efficiently enhances thermal stability, but poling efficiency is not always improved as the size of isolation‐group increases. The enormous isolation group restrained the mobility of chromophore in the polymer matrix and shows a worsening SH intensity. The maximum second harmonic coefficient (d₃₃ = 68.7 pm/V) is displayed as benzene is attaching to chromophore moieties as isolation‐group in this study. Polyurethane containing two‐dimensional chromophore shows superior thermal stability due to the large volume required to rotate the chromophore in the polymer matrix. Two‐dimensional system exhibits lower SH intensity due to the rigid polymer main chain and twisted conjugated plane. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 47: 4937–4949, 2009     

Facile synthesis and electro‐optic activities of new polycarbonates containing tricyanofuran‐based nonlinear optical chromophores

Two series of novel electro‐optic (EO) polycarbonates containing two different kinds of nonlinear optical (NLO) chromophores with tricyanofurane (TCF) electron acceptor have been successfully prepared through the facile polycondensation between diol NLO chromophore and bisphenol A bis(chloroformate). These new polycarbonates which were characterized by ¹H‐NMR and Fourier transform infrared exhibited good solubility in common polar organic solvents. They also showed glass transition temperatures (T_g) in the range of 124–156 °C. The morphology studies indicated that these polycarbonates had good film quality before and after corona poling. The EO coefficients (r₃₃) of two polycarbonates films were up to 45 pm/V (PC‐TCFC‐2) and 75 pm/V (PC‐DFTC‐3) at the wavelength of 1310 nm. Moreover, good temporal stability of the poling‐induced dipole alignment was also achieved, and the resulting poled films of PC‐TCFC‐2 and PC‐DFTC‐3 could retain 90 and 80% of the initial EO activities at 85 °C for more than 500 h, respectively. Both EO activity and temporal stability results were better than the guest–host EO polymers containing the same concentration chromophores, which indicated that such kind of polycarbonates could effectively suppress the intermolecular electrostatic interaction and translate microscopic molecular hyperpolarizability into macroscopic EO activity. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Polym. Sci., Part A: Polym. Chem. 2013, 51, 2841–2849.     

Second-harmonic generation in an optically poled azo-dye/polymer film

The power dependence of the optical poling process of a new azo chromophore in the polymethylmethacrylate matrix at room temperature has been investigated. The existing theory is found to be inconsistent with the experiment. A simple model based on the rate equation is proposed to describe the writing process of the chromophore/polymer system. The measured growth rate and the plateau second-harmonic generation intensity as induced by all optical poling are found to be in good agreement with the prediction of the simple model.     

Macroscopic order and electro-optic response of dipolar chromophore-polymer materials.

This Minireview considers the key factors that govern the organization of macroscopic polarization in nonlinear optical systems obtained by electric poling of organic dipolar chromophores dissolved in polymer matrices. The macroscopic electric polarization depends on the thermodynamic state of the dipole system. The dependence of the paraelectric and antiferroelectric states of dipolar chromophores on the chromophore concentration and the strength of the poling field is discussed. Phase transitions between the para- and antiferroelectric states are investigated within the limits of the Ising and isotropic models for the chromophore dipoles and are considered for varying chromophore concentration, poling field strength, and macroscopic shape of the sample used for poling. The macroscopic polarization and electro-optic coefficient of the material change drastically upon phase transition. The theories are compared with the experimental data on the electro-optic coefficient dependence on the chromophore concentration. The isotropic dipole model shows excellent agreement with experiment for the chromophore systems most commonly used in nonlinear optics.