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Acknowledgments The nearly five years which I spent working towards my PhD degree were not only a great professional experience, but also a great cultural experience. I am happy that I have met so many wonderful people who made my stay here full of meaning and fun. First of all, I would like to thank my advisor, Prof. Ken Singer, for his high standards for work, attention, optimism and overall support. In graduate work, the role of advisor is extremely important, and I was very lucky to have Prof. Singer as an advisor. For me, graduate study here was not only classes and experiments, but also an immersion in a diversity of cultures and customs. I am grateful to Profs. S. Machlup and B. Segall for our musical discussions and concert tickets, to Profs. R. Petschek, R. Brown and C. Taylor for nice conversations in the corridor, to Angie Amato, Lori Rotar, Lucy Rosenberg and Juanita for their support and participation in my life. I would like to acknowledge all the former and current members of our NLO group as well as collaborators, especially Dr. Jingwen Zhang, Prof. Yu.Reznikov and Dr. Toemsak Srikhirin. Thanks to Andy Stickrath who did his senior project in our lab - our work was a very rewarding teaching experience for me. Special thanks to Prof. J. Andrews who patiently read my papers and provided me with many useful comments. Also, it was an immense pleasure to work with Dr. Irina Shiyanovskaya, who became my close friend. I am proud to have such a good friend as Dr. Tim Doerr who was always ready to help with anything - from correcting my grammar at any time to discussing physics and life problems. I was very happy to meet here Zlatko Dimcovic whose kind heart, loyal friendship and overall support have been the source of joy and optimism during all these years. Most of all, I would like to thank my husband Victor, whose understanding, commitment and devotion have helped tremendously in my work and life here. xi
Nonlinear Optical Probes and Processes in Polymers and Liquid Crystals Abstract by Oksana G. Ostroverkhova Nonlinear optical (NLO) techniques are important for materials research due to their high sensitivity to the molecular properties of the system. In this thesis, I consider both theoretical and experimental background for three NLO effects - the photorefractive (PR) effect, second harmonic generation (SHG) and electric field induced second harmonic generation (EFISHG) in polymers and liquid crystals. I introduce the theoretical molecular model that describes the PR effect in polymers. The dynamics of both photoconductivity and photorefractive grating development is numerically simulated and analyzed. Factors limiting the PR speed in polymers are discussed. A procedure to determine various photoconductivity rates from experiments and, from them, to predict the PR speed is detailed. A complete study of the photoconductive and PR properties of various PVK-based composites is presented. An optimal polymer composite for the PR dynamical xii
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Page 7 and 8: List of Figures 2.1 Schematic exper
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Page 13 and 14: Chapter 1 Introduction From ancient
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Page 17 and 18: degenerate four-wave mixing and the
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2.2.3 Charge trapping and detrappin
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Eqs. 2.29 and so, we will assume be
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However, Eq. 2.44 was derived under
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So, in this case the form of the so
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independent ζ0 [17]. We substitute
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on the both photoconductivity and p
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Trap-unlimited regime In this secti
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m xa 1 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2 1 -1 TMT1
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simplify these to: ˜ λ1 ≈ 1; ˜
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- 6 0 , 10 40 30 20 10 simulated d
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and ˜γ, the correct estimate of i
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is no longer valid, so the followin
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tion 2.3.2, we show how the ionized
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numerical simulation of the dynamic
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The first order system of equations
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where C, ˜ C are constants determi
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Diffr.eff. , arb.units 1 0.8 0.6 0.
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Figure 2.15: PR speed ν calculated
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a real system the effect from a cha
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ρ0(t) ≈ ˜ρ0 and ionized accept
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the PR performance, in particular d
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2.4.1 “Simple” electro-optic ef
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Eq. 2.71 and compared to the measur
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For one-dimensional molecules whose
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applied electric field Ea, but also
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or, in terms of microscopic quantit
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The photoconductivity part of the P
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[14] Y. Cui, B. Swedek, N. Cheng, J
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[41] P. Gunter and J.-P. Huignard,
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Next, in Section 3.4, we will discu
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a) NC O O C 60 NC O NC O NC PVK c)
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transport is only conducted through
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NA of the C60 molecules (see Figure
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3.3 Photoconductivity experiments I
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photogenerated in the bulk during a
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voltage V , but the voltage V0 at w
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Figure 3.4: Electric field dependen
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320nm Nd:YAG laser with Raman shift
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zero. In these equations, q is the
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non-Gaussian charge transport. In t
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30 V/ m 30 C 0 40 C 0 50 C 0 Figure
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Figure 3.9: Dependence of the mobil
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a) b) Figure 3.10: Current transien
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Conventionally, in the DC photocond
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a) b) 40 V/ m 100 mW/cm 2 Figure 3.
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1 0= 770 s -1 -1 = 4.35 s B = 1.66
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Figure 3.14: Trapping parameter γT
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Figure 3.15: Long time scale photoc
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Figure 3.16: Example of the photocu
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He-Ne laser Beam Splitter Polarizat
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Figure 2.3. Then, the ratio of the
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to explore experimentally which mec
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In most of the PR polymer composite
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disappeared, we opened the other wr
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Now we describe the general trends
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ciency is an increasing function of
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are defined in Eqs. 2.58). Eq. 3.23
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state diffraction efficiency was th
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Figure 3.26: Dependence of the fast
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E a) b) Applied electri
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Figure 3.28: Dependence of the fast
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(i) calculate the PR speed as deter
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h h C 60 (N A ) s T 1 E PVK PDCST
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ferences that affect dissociation r
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serve that the addition of all chro
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is simplified. Knowing the availabl
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the free hole with the ionized acce
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Figure 3.30: Intensity dependence o
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3.5.2 Plasticized composites This c
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the recombination rate γ and the s
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h h h h h h C 60 (N (NA) A) s s s
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Figure 3.33: Concentration dependen
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mophore may contain a large error d
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ather requires knowing trapping rat
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Figure 3.36: Time evolution of diff
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and for low concentrations of AODCS
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concentration x10 %. For the lower
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3.6 Summary of Chapter 3 In Chapter
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References [1] W. E. Moerner and S.
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[27] J. Schildkraut and Y. Cui. Zer
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[51] A. Blythe. Electrical Properti
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E = 0 E 0 Fi
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chromophores are randomly oriented
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where the local field factors are g
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system, and k is Boltzmann’s cons
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Ar Laser + Ti:Sapphire Laser Spectr
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Figure 4.4: Typical data in the EFI
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and the birefringence ∆n(t) is pr
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experiment is the applied field. Ho
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nature. For the transient shown in
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Figure 4.7: Illustration of the HeN
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the screening of the external elect
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is accompanied by the reduction in
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References [1] W. E. Moerner, S. M.
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Chapter 5 Second harmonic generatio
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2 d 2 0 L Figure 5.1: Schematic
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of the nonlinear susceptibilities i
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x z E p E s Figure 5.2:
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(a) (b) (c)
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to βz ′ z ′ z ′ as follows [
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d31 = N 2 〈cos θ sin2 θ〉〈co
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Thus, SHG measurements of the azimu
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a) b) 10 5 -10 -5 5 10 15 -5 -10 c)
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Nd:YAG “Reference” PMT 2 F Quar
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( ) ( ) H3C Si (CH2) 11 O NO2 H 3C
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Figure 5.11: Maker fringes observed
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We observed light-induced alignment
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polarized UV light. The intensity o
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and then d31 = d sub 31 + N 4 cos
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The angular dependence of the secon
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= ⎛ ⎜ ⎝ sin Φ d25cos 2 Φ s
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S-input polarization The case of s-
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pf,y = 0 pf,x = 1 ω nf bf,x = pf,
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References [1] M. B. Feller, W. Che
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Chapter 6 Summary In this, final, C
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anticipated from the theoretical mo
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Bibliography Abkowitz, M., Bassler,
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Daubler, T. K., Bittner, R., Meerho
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Kuzyk, M. G., and Dirk, C. W., Eds.
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Reznikov, Y., Ostroverkhova, O., Si
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Zilker, S. J., Grasruck, M., Wolff,
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