Abstract
Electric-field distributions in coplanar-electrode configurations are studied experimentally through the linear electro-optic (EO) measurements in poled EO polymers. Thermoplastic poling of an isotropic guest-host polyimide system was employed to investigate the electrostatic factors determining the field distribution inside the EO polymer. Electrostatic analysis of the field distribution shows that the introduction of a new boundary condition formed by the polymer surface is necessary to account for field distributions measured by the linear EO effect.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 3541-3544 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Physical Review A |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue number | 4 |
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| State | Published - 1994 |