A new synthetic approach for the incorporation of highly efficient second-order nonlinear optical chromophores containing tricyanovinyl electron acceptors into methacrylate polymers

Abstract

A new synthetic method is developed to incorporate efficient nonlinear optical chromophores containing thiophene conjugating units and tricyanovinyl acceptors into methacrylate polymers; this approach emphasizes the incorporation of tricyanovinyl groups into the pendant side chains after copolymerization of the precursor substituted acrylates with methyl methacrylate.