非线性光学材料将成为光纤通信用的光转换、光计算机互连和光学计算用的重要材料。 现在,所有这些系统都要求把信息转换到适当的信道。从历史上看,它是以电方式来实现的,即通过把光束转换成电信号。继而处理电信号,然后再把电信号转换成光信号。 非线性光学材料以光学方式简便地转换光束将能提供一种更加简便的解决方案。 无论是气体、液体还是固体非线性光学材料的重要特性是,当这些材料受到强电场或强磁场时,其折射率就进行改变,其折射率的改变随着暴露在不同的光波长向变化。 目前,光折射非线性光学材料受到人们的极大重视,因为这些材料已在动态全息光存储、图像处理及光信息处理等领域得到广泛应用。 光折射非线性光学材料与传统的非线性光学材料相似,当它们受到电场或磁场时也发生折射变化,但是它们也对光敏感。当光辐照时,光产生载荷子的空间分布出现变化。 对未来许多制造非线性光学材料的方法起重要作用的聚合物进行了研究,这些聚合物包括外延无机 Nonlinear optical materials will become important materials for optical conversion, optical computer interconnection, and optical calculation for optical fiber communications. All these systems now require the conversion of information to the appropriate channel. Historically, it was implemented electrically, by converting light beams into electrical signals. The electrical signal is then processed and then the electrical signal is converted into an optical signal. The optically simple conversion of light beams by non-linear optical materials will provide a simpler solution. The important characteristic of a non-linear optical material, whether it be a gas, a liquid or a solid, is that when these materials are subjected to a strong electric field or a strong magnetic field, their refractive index changes, and their refractive index changes with exposure to different wavelengths of light. At present, light refraction nonlinear optical materials have received great attention because they have been widely used in dynamic holographic optical storage, image processing, and optical information processing. Light-refraction nonlinear optical materials are similar to conventional nonlinear optical materials in that they also undergo refraction changes when they are subjected to electric or magnetic fields, but they are also sensitive to light. When light is irradiated, the spatial distribution of light-generating charge carriers changes. A number of polymers that play an important role in future methods of making non-linear optical materials have been studied. These include epitaxial inorganic materials.