| abstract |
An optical component (100) includes a permeable for electromagnetic radiation polymeric medium with a second-order susceptibility of Minden least 10- 9 electrostatic units, said polymer medium comprises compounds with polar aligned noncentrosymmetric molecular dipoles having as structural element of an electron acceptor, which is bound to an electrode donor via a conjugated n-electron system, which enables the molar dipole to oscillate between a ground state with a first dipole moment and an electronically excited state with a second dipole moment different from the first, and is characterized in that that the polymeric medium alternately consists of at least one Langmuir-Blodgett film each of at least two different, non-ionic, non-linear optical properties of polymers (103).n n n In addition to high mechanical and chemical stability, the optical component according to the invention exhibits excellent nonlinear optical properties, for example frequency doubling. |