Large molecular third-order optical nonlinearities in polarized carotenoids

Science

Volumn 276, Issue 5316, 1997, Pages 1233-1236

  Marder, Seth R ^a,b   Torruellas, William E ^c,g   Blanchard Desce, Mirelle ^d   Ricci, Vincent ^c   Stegeman, George I ^c   Gilmour, Sharon ^b   Brédas, Jean Luc ^e   Li, Jun ^e   Bublitz, Greg U ^f   Boxer, Steve G ^f  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^d ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; HYPERPOLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOISOMERISM; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

CAROTENOIDS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OPTICS; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 10744227954     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.276.5316.1233     Document Type: Article

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23. This work was supported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the National Science Foundation Chemistry Division (S.G.B.), the Division of Materials Research (S.R.M.), and the Beckman Institute. The research described in this report was performed in part at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, as part of its Center for Space Microelectronics Technology and was supported by the Ballistic Missiles Defense Initiative Organization, Innovative Science and Technology Office, through a contract with NASA. The work at Mons, Belgium, is carried out within the framework of the Belgium Prime Minister Office of Science Policy "Pôle d'Attraction Interuniversitaire en Chimie Supramoléculaire et Catalyse" and was supported in part by the Belgium National Fund for Scientific Research and by IBM-Belgium Academic Joint Study. We thank F. Hoffman-LaRoche Ltd. for a generous sample of β-apocarotenal and G. Zerbi and M. Barzoukas for helpful discussions.