Quantitative Photoswitching in Bis(dithiazole)ethene Enables Modulation of Light for Encoding Optical Signals
Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: Using one ray of light to encode another ray of light is highly desirable because information in optical format can be directly transferred from one beam to another without converting back to the electronic format. One key medium to accomplish such an amazing task is photoswitchable molecules. Using bis(dithiazole)ethene that can be photoswitched between its ring-open and ring-closed states quantitatively with excellent fatigue resistance and high thermal stability, it is shown that quantitative photoreversibility allowed the photoswitching light to control other light travelling through the photoswitchable medium, a phenomenon of transferring information encoded in one light ray to others, thus imparting photo-optical modulation on the orthogonal light beam.
Authors: Yue Wu, Yongshu Xie, Qiong Zhang, He Tian, Weihong Zhu, Alexander D. Q. Li
Language: English
Subfield: Materials Chemistry
Field: Materials Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Funders: National Science Foundation, National Natural Science Foundation of China, China Scholarship Council, State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, National Key Research and Development Program of China, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China, Division of Chemistry
OpenAlex ID: W1964306662