申请人:Toray Industries, Inc.
公开号:US04987255A1
公开(公告)日:1991-01-22
The present invention provides an organic nonlinear optical material including a benzylidene-aniline derivative having an electron-donating substituent introduced at the 4-position and an electron-accepting substituent introduced at the 4'-position, by selecting as the conjugated .pi. electronic system a benzylidene-aniline derivative having a large molecular hyperpolarizability and yet a dipole moment as small as those of benzene derivatives, and introducing a molecular alignment-regulating substituent. The centrosymmetry in the bulk state of the material, for example, in the crystal state, is destroyed and the molecular alignment is regulated to such a bulk structure so that the optical nonlinearity possessed by the molecule is effectively utilized. The material exhibits a large optical nonlinearity never attained by conventional techniques. The intermolecular cohesive force due to the .pi. electron interaction between the molecules in the present invention is larger than that between a benzene derivative. Consequently, the material has, comparatively, a high melting point, a low subliming property, and a low water-absorbing property. In conclusion, a practically invaluable nonlinear optical material having a high durability in the bulk state and an excellent resistance to laser damage is provided.
本发明提供了一种有机非线性光学材料,包括在4-位引入一个供电子取代基团和在4'-位引入一个受电子取代基团的苯甲醛-苯胺衍生物,通过选择作为共轭π电子系统的苯甲醛-苯胺衍生物,具有较大的分子高极化率,但偶极矩与苯衍生物相同小,并引入分子定向调节取代基团。例如,在材料的大量状态,例如在晶体状态中,中心对称性被破坏,分子排列被调节到这样一种大量结构,使分子所拥有的光学非线性有效利用。该材料表现出一种传统技术从未达到的大光学非线性。由于本发明中分子之间的π电子相互作用引起的分子间凝聚力大于苯衍生物之间的凝聚力。因此,该材料具有相对较高的熔点,低升华性质和低吸水性质。总之,提供了一种在大量状态具有高耐久性和出色抗激光损伤性能的非常宝贵的非线性光学材料。