Optimizing specific third-order polarizabilities and approaching the fundamental limit in donor substituted cyanoethynylethene (CEE) molecules

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6331, Issue , 2006, Pages

  May, Joshua C ^a   LaPorta, Philip R ^a   Esembeson, Bweh ^a   Biaggio, Ivan ^a   Michinobu, Tsuyoshi ^b   Bures, Filip ^b   Diederich, François ^b  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Hyperpolarizability; Organic molecules; Third order polarizability; Third order susceptibility

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; CONTROL NONLINEARITIES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; PHOTONS; SUBSTITUTION REACTIONS;

HYPERPOLARIZABILITY; ORGANIC MOLECULES; THIRD-ORDER POLARIZABILITY; THIRD-ORDER SUSCEPTIBILITY;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 33751399986     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.682451     Document Type: Conference Paper

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