Ultrafast nonlinear optical properties of charge-transfer polymers: Transient holography and transient absorption studies

Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics and Materials

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 313-330

  Mcbranch, Duncan W ^a   Maniloff, Eric S ^a   Vacar, Dan ^b   Heeger, Alan J ^b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Holography; Photoinduced charge transfer; Transient absorption; conjugated polymers

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CONJUGATED POLYMERS; DATA HANDLING; DIFFRACTION EFFICIENCY; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; EFFICIENCY; EXCITED STATES; FOUR WAVE MIXING; HOLOGRAPHIC GRATINGS; HOLOGRAPHY; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTING POLYMERS; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

LOCALIZED EXCITATIONS; NON-DEGENERATE FOUR WAVE MIXING; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL MATERIAL; PHOTOINDUCED CHARGE TRANSFER; PICOSECOND TIME SCALE; QUANTUM DELOCALIZATIONS; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPIES;

CHARGE TRANSFER;

EID: 0032344857     PISSN: 02188635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218863598000259     Document Type: Article

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