Excited-state absorption and anisotropy properties of two-photon absorbing fluorene derivatives

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 33, 2005, Pages 7232-7238

  Belfield, Kevin D ^a   Bondar, Mykhailo V ^b   Cohanoschi, I ^a   Hernandez, Florencio E ^a   Kachkovsky, Oleksiy D ^c   Przhonska, Olga V ^b   Yao, Sheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Ukraine)

^c INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DERIVATIVES; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PHOTONS;

EXCITED-STATE ABSORPTION; FLUORENE DERIVATIVES;

FLUORINE COMPOUNDS;

FLUORENE DERIVATIVE;

ABSORPTION; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; METHODOLOGY; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY;

ABSORPTION; ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUORENES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE, MULTIPHOTON; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 29144490561     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.007232     Document Type: Article

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