Photoactive Organic Materials: Science and Applications Book

	Preface
	Excitations in Organic Crystalline Nanostructures: Some Theoretical Aspects for Nonlinear Optics	1
	Vibronic Contributions in Frequency Dependent Linear and Nonlinear Optical Processes: A Joint Experimental and Theoretical Study	17
	Exciton Self-Organization in Organic and Inorganic Materials under Light Pumping	33
	Quantum Mechanical Investigations of Photoactive Molecules, Supermolecules, Supramolecules and Design of Basic Elements of Molecular Computers	53
	Excitonic Self-Induced Transparency in Organic Semiconductor Structures	67
	Two Photon Processes in Organic Molecules and Polymers	75
	Resonant Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Processes in Organic Molecules	109
	Chirality Effects in Second-Order Nonlinear Optics	129
	New Developments in Molecular Engineering: From One- to Three-Dimensional Metal Complexes	145
	Optical Limiting of Fullerene Derivatives Embedded in Sol-Gel Materials	159
	Optimizing Secondary Properties and EO Coefficients of EO Polymers	175
	Photoactive Organic Materials for Electro-Optic Modulator and High Density Optical Memory Applications	183
	Component Integration and Applications with Organic Polymers	199
	Polymer Material Systems for E/O Waveguide Devices	209
	Recent Progress in Polymer Based Electro-Optic Modulators: Materials and Technology
	Nonlinear Optical Properties of Stable Sol-Gel Systems	247
	Polymeric Gratings for Frequency Conversion - Second and Half Harmonic Generation	263
	Electro-Optical Modulation in Organic Waveguides using Grating Couplers	275
	Organic Photorefractive Materials	281
	Conjugated Polymers for Electroluminescence: Principles and Prospects
	Organic Electroluminescence and Applications	313
	Photochromism and Its Applications in Real-Time Holography	325
	Photoactivity of Bacteriorhodopsin: Properties, Mechanisms and Applications	343
	Synthesis and Spectroelectrochemical Study of Poly(3,3'-Dialkoxy-2,2'- Bithiophenes) and Poly(4,4'-Dialkyl-2,2'-Bithiophenes)	361
	Photoactive Molecular Multilayer Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) Films of Oriented Dipolar Betaine Type Organic Molecules	375
	Design and Characterization of Organic Channel Waveguides	393
	Photobleaching Mechanisms in Azobenzene Functionalized Polymethacrylates	401
	Photoconductive Polymers and Their use in Molecular Devices	411
	Modulation of the Optical Properties of Sexithiophene Thin Films by Field-Effect Charges	431
	Formation and Electrical and Optical Properties of Multi-Component Langmuir-Blodgett Films Containing Poly(3-n-Alkylthiophenes)	411
	Silent and Higher Order Vibrations in the Infrared Transmission of C[subscript 60] Clathrates	457
	Conformation and Electronic Structure in Poly(alkylthiophenes)	471
	Optical Effects in Dye-Doped Liquid Crystals	477
	Dye-Doped Liquid Crystal for Real-Time Holography: Nematic Reorientation Induced by Photoconductivity	487
	A Common Model for Optical Ordering of Photoisomerizable Molecules	501
	All Optical Poling of Polymers	513
	Nonlinear Gyrotropic Propagation	527
	Molecular Engineering	543
	Nonlinear Optical Phenomena	547
	Electroluminescence and Photorefractivity	553
	Index	559