Light scattering from anisotropic block copolymer grains in a planar waveguide

Zhuangxi Fang; Maurice C. Newstein; Bruce A. Garetz; Jeffrey D. Wilbur; Nitash P. Balsara

doi:10.1364/JOSAB.24.001291

Light scattering from anisotropic block copolymer grains in a planar waveguide

Zhuangxi Fang, Maurice C. Newstein, Bruce A. Garetz, Jeffrey D. Wilbur, Nitash P. Balsara

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A theory is presented to treat depolarized light scattering in a planar waveguide consisting of an ordered block copolymer thin film on a fused-silica substrate. In guided-wave depolarized light scattering (GWDLS), light is coupled into a transverse-magnetic mode of the film, which acts as a planar waveguide. Scattering of the incident light from randomly oriented, optically anisotropic grains results in the coupling of light into propagating transverse-electric (TE) modes in the sample. A dyadic Green's function approach is employed to derive a quantitative relationship between the total optical power of the scattered TE wave and the average size of the grains. The grain size thus calculated from GWDLS experiments is consistent with the position space results of atomic force microscopy.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1291-1297
Number of pages	7
Journal	Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics
Volume	24
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.24.001291
State	Published - Jun 2007

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