Thienyl-bridged oligomeric squaraines of the indole series - Synthesis and optical properties

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4461, Issue , 2001, Pages 33-47

  Grahn, Walter ^a   Lawrentz, Ulf ^a   Scherer, Dieter ^b   DÖrfler, Robert ^b   Feldner, Andreas ^b   Schwoerer, Markus ^b   Lambert, Christoph ^c   Dix, Ina ^c   Jones, Peter George ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Degenerate four wave mixing; Exciton coupling; Oligomers; Squaraines; Third order polarizability; Two photon absorption

Indexed keywords

CHROMOPHORES; DYES; ELECTROSTATICS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OLIGOMERS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTONS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

DEGENERATE FOUR WAVE MIXING (DFWM);

OPTICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 0035763090     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.449849     Document Type: Article

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