Contribution of two-photon states to the third-order optical nonlinearity in squaraine compounds

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3473, Issue , 1998, Pages 68-78

  Andrews, James H ^a   Singer, Kenneth D ^a   Dirk, Carl W ^a   Hull, Diana L ^a   Chuang, Kathy C ^a  

^a YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Essential states; Isomerization; Squaraines; Third harmonic generation; Two photon states

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; DYES; ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; HARMONIC GENERATION; ISOMERS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ELECTRO-OPTIC SPECTRAL DISPERSION; FEMTOSECOND EXCITED STATE ABSORPTION MEASUREMENTS; SQUARAINE COMPOUNDS; THIRD HARMONIC GENERATION; THIRD-ORDER OPTICAL NONLINEARITY; TRANSITION MOMENTS; TWO-PHOTON STATES;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0032404915     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.328177     Document Type: Conference Paper

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