Photostability of electro-optic polymers possessing chromophores with efficient amino donors and cyano-containing acceptors
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The photostability of various electro-optic active guest–host polymers, doped with chromophores that possess very efficient cyano-containing acceptors and dialkyaminoor diarylamino-benzenes, and also their extended thiophene analogs as bridging structures, has been investigated over a broad wavelength range in the near infrared and the visible. A variation of over 2 orders of magnitude was found in the probability that an absorbed photon will lead to a photodegraded chromophore. The most photostable chromophore contained a tricyanovinyl acceptor and a diarylaminobenzene bridge unit. © 2001 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: 160.4330, 160.2100, 190.4400, 260.5130.
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