Nonlinear Optical Effects in Organic Polymers

Theory of Nonlinear Polarizability in Organic Low Dimensional Systems.- Impact of Dimensionality in the Optical Nonlinearities.- Theoretical Design of Organic Molecules and Polymers for Optoelectronics.- Structural Relaxation and Nonlinear Zero-Point Fluctuations as the Origin of the Anisotropic Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Susceptibility in Trans-(CH)x.- Nonlinear Susceptibility of Organic Systems.- Third-Order Nonlinear Susceptibility in Semiconducting Polymers.- Recent Nonlinear Optical Studies of MNA and Conjugated Linear Chains.- Quadratic Nonlinear Behaviour of Various Langmuir-Blodgett Molecules.- Prediction of Third Order Nonlinear Optical Activity in Ordered Polymers.- Effect of ?-Electron Delocalization on the Second-Order Polarizability of Disubstituted Hydrocarbons.- Synthesis and Nonlinear Optical Properties Characterization of New 1-D Conjugated Polymers.- Studies of Structure-Property Relations.- Synthesis of new Nonlinear Optical Ladder Polymers.- Nonlinear Optical Properties of poly(p-Phenylene Vinylene) thin Films.- The Synthesis and Properties of some Novel Diacetylene Monomers and Polymers.- Design and Optical Properties of a low Energy gap Conjugated Polymer: Polydithieno (3,4–b:3’,4’–d)Thiophene.- Synthetic Approaches to Stable and Efficient Polymeric Frequency Doubling Materials. Second-Order Nonlinear Optical Properties of Poled, Chromophore-Functionalized Glassy Polymers.- Langmuir-Blodgett Films of Rigid rod Polymers with Controlled Lateral Orientation.- Polymers and Molecular Assemblies for Second-Order Nonlinear Optics.- Spectral Properties and Second-Harmonic Generation of Hemicyanine dye in Langmuir-Blodgett Films.- Experimental Methods.- Cubic Susceptibility of Organic Molecules in Solution.- Measurement of the Non-LinearRefractive Index of some Metallocenes by the Optical Power Limiter Technique.- Polymerization and X-ray Structure of new Symmetrical and Unsymmetrical Diacetylenes.- Application of Organic Polymers in NLO Devices.- Third-Order Nonlinear Guided-Wave Devices.- Organic Integrated Optical Devices.- Orientationally Ordered Nonlinear Optical Polymer Films.- Overview-Nonlinear Optical Organics and Devices.- Non Linear Optical Polymers for Active Optical Devices.- Linear Electrooptic Coefficient of a Ferroelectric Polymer.- Application of Third-Order Non-Linearities of Dyed PVA to Real-Time Holography.- Device Applications and Materials Requirements.- Ultrafast Third-Order Non-linear Optical Processes in Polymeric Films.- Picosecond Phase Conjugation in Yellow Polydiacetylene Solutions.- Picosecond Studies of Optical Stark Effect in Polydiacetylenes.- Four Working Groups Reports.- Ultrafast Phenomena in Conjugated Polymers.- Device Applications and Materials Requirements.- Polymer Synthesis for Nonlinear Optics and Characterization.- Characterization Techniques.