Toray Industries, Inc.

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Tosiyuki Kondoh

Tetsuya Gotoh

Keiichi Egawa

Ken-ichi Kubodera

Mutsuo Aoyagi

A third-order nonlinear optical element showing wide employable wave-length range of input light, high speed operation and low light intensity of input light is disclosed. The third-order nonlinear optical element of the present invention has at least two substantially optically smooth surfaces and comprise a charge-transfer complex consisting essentially of (i) at least one electron-accepting component selected from the group consisting of cyano compounds, quinones, nitro compounds, acid anhydride, halogenes, and halogenated carbons; and (ii) at least one electron-donating component selected from the group consisting of unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon compounds, unsaturated heterocyclic compounds, chalcogen-containing compounds, quarternary unsaturated heterocyclic compounds and metals. The charge-transfer complex of nonlinear optical element of the present invention is formed of said at least one electron-accepting component and said at least one electron-donating component in the ground state and at least one of said components is an organic compound having .pi.-conjugated system.

Method of operating third-order nonlinear optical element

A third-order nonlinear optical element showing wide employable wave-length range of input light, high speed operation and low light intensity of input light is disclosed. The third-order nonlinear optical element of the present invention has at least two substantially optically smooth surfaces and comprise a charge-transfer complex consisting essentially of (i) at least one electron-accepting component selected from the group consisting of cyano compounds, quinones, nitro compounds, acid anhydride, halogenes, and halogenated carbons; and (ii) at least one electron-donating component selected from the group consisting of unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon compounds, unsaturated heterocyclic compounds, chalcogen-containing compounds, quarternary unsaturated heterocyclic compounds and metals The charge-transfer complex of nonlinear optical element of the present invention is formed of said at least one electron-accepting component and said at least one electron-donating component in the ground state and at least one of said components is an organic compound having .pi.-conjugated system.

Third-order nonlinear optical element

A novel near-infrared sensitive phthalocyanine-polymer composition comprises a substituted aluminum phthalocyanine and a polymer wherein substituted aluminum phthalocyanine dimers and/or dimer aggregates which are responsible to the near-infrared sensitivity, are included. The near-infrared sensitive phthalocyanine-polymer composition has useful characteristics:

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Tosiyuki Kondoh