Polymers for Lightwave and Integrated Optics Technology and Applications Book

	About the Series
	Preface
	Advisory Board
	Contributors
Pt. 1	Passive Optical Polymers and Applications
Ch. 1	Polymer Optical Fibers	1
Ch. 2	Polymer Optical Fibers in Data Communications and Sensor Applications	39
Ch. 3	Graded Index Materials and Components	71
Ch. 4	Patterning Poly(methyl methacrylate)	105
Ch. 5	Photopolymers for Holography and Waveguide Applications	145
Ch. 6	Microoptical Grating Elements	171
Ch. 7	Synthesis and Applications of Polysilyne Thin Film Optical Waveguide Media	195
Ch. 8	Polyimide Lightguides	207
Ch. 9	Optical Interconnectlon Polymers	231
Ch. 10	Polymer Optics in the Information Age	267
Pt. II	Nonlinear Optical Polymers and Applications
Ch. 11	Optical Polymers and Multifunctional Materials	287
Ch. 12	Molecular Polymeric Materials for Nonlinear Optics	321
Ch. 13	Guest-Host Polymer Systems for Second-Order Optical Nonlinearities	343
Ch. 14	Nonlinear Optical Side-Chain Polymers and Electro-Optic Test Devices	365
Ch. 15	Fabrication and Characterization of Polymeric Lightwave Devices	397
Ch. 16	Large-Scale Integration of Electro-Optic Polymer Waveguides	433
Ch. 17	Polymer Etalons and Free Space Interconnects	473
Ch. 18	Third-Order Optical Processes in Linear Chains: Electron Correlation Theory and Experimental Dispersion Measurements	501
Ch. 19	Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Processes and Ultrafast Dynamics in Polymers	543
Ch. 20	Third-Order Materials: Processes and Characterization	595
Ch. 21	Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Properties of Polymeric Materials	647
Ch. 22	All-Optical Phase Modulation in Polydiacetylene Waveguides	667
Ch. 23	Holographic Memories Using Organic Storage Materials	681
Ch. 24	Material Structures of Organic Molecules and Matrices for Persistent Spectral Hole Burning	707
	Index	735