Time-dependent nonlinear optical properties of pyroelectric liquid crystalline polymers

• Published in: Macromolecular symposia. Vol. 148; no. 1; pp. 179 - 195
• Main Authors: Örtegren, Jonas, Busson, Philippe, Gedde, Ulf W, Hult, Anders, Eriksson, Anders, Lindgren, Mikael, Arntzén, Per-Otto, Hermann, David S, Rudquist, Per, Lagerwall, Sven T
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA 01.12.1999

Highly oriented pyroelectric liquid-crystalline polymers were prepared by photopolymerization under the influence of a static electric field from binary mixtures of two acrylate monomers exhibiting chiral smectic C mesomorphism. Both monomers contained nitro groups to yield second order nonlinear op...