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Extended conjugation and donor-acceptor substitution to improve the third-order optical nonlinearity of small molecules

Appl. Phys. Lett. 90, 251106 (2007); doi:10.1063/1.2750396

Published 20 June 2007

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Joshua C. May and Ivan Biaggio
Department of Physics and Center for Optical Technologies, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015

Filip Bures and François Diederich
Laboratorium für Organische Chemie, ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HCI, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
The authors use donor-acceptor substitution to increase the third-order polarizability gamma of small cyanoethynylethene molecules by lowering the energy corresponding to the first optical transition. They identify a weak power-law dependence for gamma depending on the number of conjugated electrons that separate the donor and acceptors (N1.5), which is the result of the two competing contributions that depend on the conjugation length: the energy separation of the ground and first excited states and the strength of the transition dipole matrix elements. The molecules are highly efficient with respect to their small masses and fall within a factor of 50 of the theoretical limit for centrosymmetric molecules, putting them among the best molecules measured to date. ©2007 American Institute of Physics
History: Received 13 April 2007; accepted 26 May 2007; published 20 June 2007
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KEYWORDS and PACS

Keywords
PACS
  • 42.65.-k
    Nonlinear optics
  • 32.80.Rm
    Multiphoton ionization and excitation to highly excited states in atoms e.g., Rydberg states
  • 33.15.Kr
    Molecular electric and magnetic moments (and derivatives), polarizability, and magnetic susceptibility
  • YEAR: 2007

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