Content: Linear optical anisotropy in aromatic polyimide films and its applications in negative birefringent compensators of liquid-crystal displays / Fuming Li, Edward P. Savitski, Jyh-Chien Chen, Yeocheol Yoon, Frank W. Harris, and Stephen Z.D. Cheng -- Transparent zero-birefringence polymers / Shuichi Iwata, Hisashi Tsukahara, Eisuke Nihei, and Yasuhiro Koike -- Development of polymer optical waveguides for photonic device applications / Toshikuni Kaino, Itaru Yokohama, Satoru Tomaru, Michiyuki Amano, and Makoto Hikita -- High-power polymer optical fiber amplifiers in the visible region / Takeyuki Kobayashi, Akihiro Tagaya, Shiro Nakatsuka, Shigehiro Teramoto, Eisuke Nihei, Keisuke Sasaki, and Yasuhiro Koike -- Optimization of modal and material dispersions in high-bandwidth graded-index polymer optical fibers / Eisuke Nihei, T. Ishigure, and Yasuhiro Koike -- Preparation and characterization of gradient-index polymer fibers / W.C. Chen, J.H. Chen, S.Y. Yang, J.J. Chen, Y.H. Chang, B.C. Ho, and T.W. Tseng -- Dipole-dipole interactions in controlled-refractive-index polymers / Patricia R.H. Bertolucci and Julie P. Harmon -- High-temperature nonlinear optical chromophores and polymers / R.D. Miller, D.M. Burland, M. Jurich, V.Y. Lee, P.M. Lundquist, C.R. Moylan, R.J. Twieg, J.I. Thackara, T. Verbiest, Z. Sekkat, J. Wood, E.F. Aust, and W. Knoll -- Highly stable copolyimides for second-order nonlinear optics / Dong Yu, Wenjie Li, Ali Gharavi, and Luping Yu -- Accordion polymers for nonlinear optical applications / Geoffrey A. Lindsay, Kenneth J. Wynne, John D. Stenger-Smith, Andrew P. Chafin, Richard A. Hollins, M. Joseph Roberts, Larry H. Merwin, and Warren N. Herman -- Novel nonlinear optical polymers / Naoto Tsutsumi, Osamu Matsumoto, and Wataru Sakai -- Thermal stability of nonlinear optical chromophores / Ivan J. Goldfarb and Hongtu Feng -- Polydiacetylene microcrystals for third-order nonlinear optics / Hachiro Nakanishi and Hitoshi Kasai -- Third-order nonlinear susceptibility of polydiacetylene-containing polymeric systems / M.P. Carreón, L. Fomina, S. Fomine, D.V.G.L.N. Rao, F.J. Aranda, and T. Ogawa -- Organic polymers for photorefractive applications / B. Kippelen, Sandalphon, B.L. Volodin, K. Meerholz, and N. Peyghambarian -- Azobenzene-containing polymers : digital and holographic storage / Almeria Natansohn and Paul Rochon -- Photofabrication of surface relief gratings / D.Y. Kim, X.L. Jiang, L. Li, J. Kumar, and S.K. Tripathy -- Photoinduced refractive index changes of polymer films containing photochromic dyes and evaluation of the minimal switching energy / Shin'ya Morino and Kazuyuki Horie -- Molecular dynamics of liquid-crystalline side-group polymers with fluorine-containing azobenzene chromophores / A. Schönhals, R. Ruhmann, Th. Thiele, and D. Prescher -- The "plastic retina" : image enhancement using polymer grid triode arrays / Alan J. Heeger, David J. Heeger, John Langan, and Yang Yang -- The low-lying excited states of luminescent conjugated polymers : theoretical insight into the nature of the photogenerated species and intersystem crossing processes / J. Cornil, D. Beljonne, Alan J. Heeger, and J.L. Brédas -- Synthesis and properties of novel high-electron-affinity polymers for electroluminescent devices / Xiao-Chang Li, Andrew C. Grimsdale, Raoul Cervini, Andrew B. Holmes, Stephen C. Moratti, Tuck Mun Yong, Johannes Grüner, and Richard H. Friend -- Polymer light-emitting diodes utilizing arylene-vinylene copolymers as light-emitting materials / Toshihiro Ohnishi, Shuji Doi, Yoshihiko Tsuchida, and Takanobu Noguchi -- Novel conjugated polymers : tuning optical properties by synthesis and processing / Ullrich Scherf and Klaus Müllen -- Aromatic-amine-containing polymers for organic electroluminescent devices / J. Kido, G. Harada, M. Komada, H. Shionoya, and K. Nagai -- Application of thin films of polyaniline and polypyrrole in novel light-emitting devices and liquid-crystal devices / Alan G. MacDiarmid and Arthur J. Epstein -- Near-edge, X-ray-absorption, fine-structure study of poly(2,3-diphenylphenylene vinylene) following the deposition of metal / E. Ettedgui, H. Razafitrimo, B.R. Hsieh, W.A. Feld, M.W. Ruckman, and Y. Gao -- Specificity and limits of organic-based electronic devices / Francis Garnier -- Self-assembled heterostructures of electroactive polymers: new opportunities for thin-film devices / M. Ferreira, O. Onitsuka, W.B. Stockton, and M.F. Rubner -- Molecular multilayer films : the quest for order, orientation, and optical properties / Gero Decher -- Optical and photonic functions of conjugated polymer superlattices and porphyrin arrays connected with molecular wires / Takeo Shimidzu -- Electroactive and photoactive nanostructured materials from self-organizing rod-coil copolymers : synthesis and electroluminescent devices / Richard M. Tarkka, X. Linda Chen, and Samson A. Jenekhe -- Novel optically responsive and diffracting materials derived from crystalline colloidal array self-assembly / S.A. Asher, J. Weissman, H.B. Sunkara, G. Pan, J. Holtz, Lei Liu, and R. Kesavamoorthy -- Morphology of composites of low-molar-mass liquid crystals and polymer networks / C.V. Rajaram, S.D. Hudson, and L.C. Chien -- Novel multifunctional polymeric composites for photonics / Paras N. Prasad.