Photoreversible optical nonlinearities of polymeric films containing spiropyran with long alkyl chains

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 69, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1188-1190

  Tamaoki, Nobuyuki ^a   Van Keuren, Edward ^a   Matsuda, Hiro ^a   Hasegawa, Kan ^b   Yamaoka, Tsuguo ^b  

^a NATL INST OF MAT AND CHEM RES   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC POLYMERS; CONFORMATIONS; HARMONIC GENERATION; HEATING; MASKS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

MAKER FRINGE METHOD; MEROCYANINE; OPTICAL NONLINEARITIES; PHOTOCHEMICAL CONVERSION; POLYMER FILMS; SPIROPYRAN;

OPTICAL FILMS;

EID: 0030214326     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.117406     Document Type: Article

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13. Enhancement of optical nonlinearity due to the formation of J aggreges has been reported by some groups. See, for example, B. Kopainsky and W. Kaiser, Chem. Phys. Lett. 88, 357 (1982); Y. Wang, Chem. Phys. Lett. 126. 209 (1986); F. C. Spano and S. Mukamel, Phys. Rev. A 40, 5783 (1989); S. Kobayashi, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 217, 77 (1992); K. Minoshima, M. Taiji, K. Misawa, and T. Kobayashi, Chem. Phys. Lett. 218, 67 (1994); H. Matsuda, E. van Keuren, A. Masaki, K. Yase, A. Mito, C. Takahashi, H. Kasai, S. Okada, and H. Nakanishi, Nonlin. Opt. 10, 123 (1995).
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