This volume exposes the chemistry community to the critical role that chemistry can and must play in nonlinear optics research. In addition, it brings together those researchers who synthesize and characterize materials from a variety of systems, with those who build devices, giving chemists, physicists, and engineers a greater appreciation for the opportunities that lie ahead in understanding and developing nonlinear optical materials. The volume begins with a discussion of polarizability and hyperpolarizability from the view of a chemist. Tutorial chapters dealing with the fundamental structures and properties of second- and third-order nonlinear optical materials, measurement and characterization of these systems, theoretical considerations, application of these systems to devices, and overviews of the current state of affairs in both organic and inorganic nonlinear optical materials follow.
Linear and Nonlinear Polarizability: a Primer
Second-Order Nonlinear Optical Processes in Molecules and Solids
Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Effects in Molecular and Polymeric Materials
Nonlinear Optical Properties of Molecules and Materials
Electronic Hyperpolarizability and Chemical Structure
Electrooptic Polymer Waveguide Devices: Status and Applications
Waveguiding and Waveguide Applications of Nonlinear Organic Materials
Nonlinear Optical Materials: The Great and Near Great
Donor- and Acceptor-Substituted Organic and Organometallic Compounds: Second-Order Nonlinear Optical Properties
Use of a Sulfonyl Group in Materials for Nonlinear Optical Materials: A Bifunctional Electron Acceptor
Organic and Organometallic Compounds: Second-Order Molecular and Macroscopic Optical Nonlinearities
Chemistry of Anomalous-Dispersion Phase-Matched Second Harmonic Generation
Applications of Organic Second-Order Nonlinear Optical Materials
Chromophore-Polymer Assemblies for Nonlinear Optical Materials: Routes to New Thin-Film Frequency-Doubling Materials
Novel Covalently Functionalized Amorphous *y� Nonlinear Optical Polymer: Synthesis and Characterization
Second-Order Nonlinear Optical Polyphosphazanes
Molecular Design for Enhanced Electric Field Orientation of Second-Order Nonlinear Optical Chromophores
Nonlinear Optical Chromophores in Photocrosslinked Matrices: Synthesis, Poling, and Second-Harmonic Generation
Thermal Effects on Dopant Orientation in Poled, Doped Polymers: Use of Second Harmonic Generation
Organic Polymers as Guided Wave Materials
Observing High Second Harmonic Generation and Control of Molecular Alignment in One Dimension: Cyclobutenediones as a Promising New Acceptor for Nonlinear Optical Materials
Strategy and Tactics in the Search for New Harmonic-Generating Crystals
Development of New Nonlinear Optical Crystals in the Borate Series
What is Materials Chemistry?
Defect Properties and the Photorefractive Effect in Barium Titanate
Defect Chemistry of Nonlinear Optical Oxide Crystals
From Molecular to Supramolecular Nonlinear Optical Properties
Control of Symmetry and Asymmetry in Hydrogen-Bonded Nitroaniline Materials
Molecular Orbital Modeling of Monomeric Aggregates in Materials with Potentially Nonlinear Optical Properties
Strategies for Design of Solids with Polar Arrangement
Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals Designed For Electronic Nonlinear Optical Applications
Model Polymers with Distyrylbenzene Segments for Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Properties
Composites: Novel Materials for Second Harmonic Generation
Clathrasils: New Materials for Nonlinear Optical Applications
Inorganic Sol-Gel Glasses as Matrices for Nonlinear Optical Materials
Intrazeolite Semiconductor Quantum Dots and Quantum Supralattices: New Materials for Nonlinear Optical Applications
Small Semiconductor Particles: Preparation and Characterization
Synthetic Approaches to Polymeric Nonlinear Optical Materials Based on Ferrocene Systems
Transition Metal Acetylides for Nonlinear Optical Properties
Third-Order Near-Resonance Nonlinearities in Dithiolenes and Rare Earth Metallocenes
Nonlinear Optical Properties of Substituted Phthalocyanines
Nonlinear Optical Properties of Substituted Polysilanes and Polygermanes
Design of New Nonlinear Optic-Active Polymers: Use of Delocalized Polaronic or Bipolaronic Charge States
New Polymeric Materials with Cubic Optical Nonlinearities: From Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization
Polymers and an Unusual Molecular Crystal with Nonlinear Optical Properties
Quadratic Electrooptic Effect in Small Molecules
Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Properties of Organic Materials