Patent ID: 7297297

Claim:
An optical polymeric compound containing polyimide repeating units and organic dye molecular groups, wherein the optical polymeric compound has the following formula: where S is an organic dye molecular group having a structure of the following formula: where x 1 is hydrocarbon, oxygen, sulfur, nitrogen, ester (CO 2 ), or amide (CONR 1 ), where R 1 is an alkyl or phenyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, D is an organic chromophore molecule selected from the group consisting of an amino-isophorone-dicyanide (AIDC) derivative and an amino-isophorone-isooxozolone (AIOX) derivative, an n is an integer from 1 to 10, and where A and B are each independently fluorocarbon-substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbons having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, oxygen, nitrogen, or sulfur, and m is in the range of 0.01 to 1 as the ratio of the polyimide repeating units to all the repeating units of the optical polymeric compound.