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Novel Polycarbonate Diacetylene Materials for Optical Limiting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

Daniel J. Sandman ,
Jeffrey L. Conroy  and
Joseph Piche
Daniel J. Sandman
Affiliation:
Center for Advanced Materials, Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA 01854
Jeffrey L. Conroy
Affiliation:
Center for Advanced Materials, Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA 01854
Joseph Piche
Affiliation:
Aspen Systems, Inc., 184 Cedar Hill Street, Marlborough, MA 01752
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Abstract

In the interest of finding useful materials systems for optical limiting, we have sought to combine the attractive third order nonlinear optical properties of polydiacetylenes (PDA) with the desirable ballistic and mechanical properties of polycarbonates in our study of two different systems. Composites of Lexan polycarbonate with the PDA from 1,6-di-N-carbazolyl-2,4-hexadiyne have attractive laser power transmission characteristics. Macromonomers derived from the chloroformates of bis -phenols A and F and diacetylene diols were synthesized, their spectral, molecular weight, and thermal properties were studied, and the crosslinking of the macromonomers to PDA structures was investigated.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 374: Symposia ZB – Materials for Optical Limiting , 1994 , 73
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1995

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