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Light harvesting is an integral part of many scientific disciplines and is of paramount importance in many economically important applications. Recent research has focused on the use of polymers in optical fibers and waveguides. Polymers have advantages over conventional glass materials in that they are low cost, lightweight, flexible, and can be processed into large diameter fibers. Great advances have been made in the development of novel local area network systems, high-speed fibers, light guides, and displays. Polymers, unlike silica materials, offer the advantage of being easily doped with organic molecules. Dye-doped polymers have been used to construct scintillators used to detect high-energy radiation and in other fluorescent devices used to produce sensors, switches, and modulators. All of these achievements have presented us with enormous challenges, because they have evidenced the need to develop devices with stable refractive index gradients, increased transparency throughout the UV, visible and near infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum and increased temperature resistance. This volume was developed from a symposium presented at the 218 th American Chemical S

Who reads Optical Polymers: Fibers and Waveguides (Acs Symposium Series)?

Author

Harmon, Julie P. (editor);Noren, Gerry K. (editor)

Publisher

American Chemical Society, Continuing Education Dept

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780841237063

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Engineering, Mathematics, Technology