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Optical Absorption of Polymers

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Encyclopedia of Polymeric Nanomaterials

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Transparent polymer

Definition

The intrinsic polymer optical absorption basically includes IR absorption and its higher harmonics as well as UV absorption, i.e., electronic transitional absorption.

Introduction

Photonics and optoelectronics systems are widely developed especially in the field of optical telecommunication, office automation, factory automation, and audiovisual signal processing. Transparent polymers which can be used to transmit, divide, couple, and process optical signals have many advantages over inorganic materials such as glasses, semiconductors, dielectrics, and inorganic optical elements. They have attracted much attention because they are easy to fabricate, their refractive index are easy to control, they are easy to handle, and they are easy to process. Polymeric passive components are low in manufacturing cost.

Polymers for optical application should be as transparent as possible, and therefore, they should be low in absorption loss and scattering...

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  1. Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba, 980-8577, Sendai, Japan

    Toshikuni Kaino

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  1. Kyoto Institute of Technology R & D Center for Bio-Based Materials, Kyoto, Japan

    Shiro Kobayashi

  2. Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung, Mainz, Germany

    Klaus Müllen

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Kaino, T. (2014). Optical Absorption of Polymers. In: Kobayashi, S., Müllen, K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Polymeric Nanomaterials. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36199-9_118-1

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