Optical Modulation of the Diffraction Efficiency in an Indoline Azobenzene/Amorphous Polycarbonate Film.

G V M Williams, My T T Do, A Middleton, S G Raymond, M D H Bhuiyan, A J Kay

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G V M WilliamsMacDairmid Institute, School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand. Grant.Williams@VUW.ac.nz.

My T T DoCallaghan Innovation, PO Box 31310, Lower Hutt, 5040, New Zealand.

A MiddletonMacDairmid Institute, School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand.

S G RaymondCallaghan Innovation, PO Box 31310, Lower Hutt, 5040, New Zealand.

M D H BhuiyanCallaghan Innovation, PO Box 31310, Lower Hutt, 5040, New Zealand.

A J KayCallaghan Innovation, PO Box 31310, Lower Hutt, 5040, New Zealand.

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Abstract

We have made a diffraction grating in an indoline azobenzene/amorphous polycarbonate film by two-beam interference at 532 nm that periodically photodegrades the indoline azobenzene dye. Subsequent illumination of the film with 532-nm light into the trans-isomer band leads to trans-cis isomerization in the indoline azobenzene dye and results in a decrease in the trans-isomer band absorption coefficient. This causes the diffraction efficiency to decrease when probed at 655 nm. The diffraction efficiency returns to its original value when the 532-nm light is blocked by thermal relaxation from the indoline azobenzene cis-isomer to the trans-isomer. Thus, we have been able to optically modulate the diffraction efficiency in a thin film diffraction grating.

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Diffraction gratingIndoline azobenzenePhotochromicThin film

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PMID27416904

DOI10.1186/s11671-016-1542-2

PMCPMC4945520

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