Two-photon mediated three-photon fluorescence: Lessons from a quinoidal oligothiophene dimer

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 2179-2183

  Raymond, Jeffery E ^a   Casado, Juan ^b   Lopez Navarrete, Juan T ^b   Takimiya, Kazuo ^c   Goodson, Theodore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Kinetics; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EMISSION CHARACTERISTICS; ENERGY LEVEL; EXCITED STATE ABSORPTION; FEMTOSECONDS; MULTIBAND; MULTIPHOTONS; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL; NONLINEAR OPTICAL PROCESS; OLIGOTHIOPHENES; PULSED EXCITATION; PUMP ENERGIES; PUMP WAVELENGTH; THIOPHENE OLIGOMERS; THREE-PHOTON; THREE-PHOTON ABSORPTION (3PA); TRANSIENT SPECTROSCOPY; TWO PHOTON; TWO-PHOTON TRANSITIONS; ULTRA-FAST; VIRTUAL STATE;

ABSORPTION; ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; DIMERS; EXCITED STATES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTONS; PUMPS; THIOPHENE;

TWO PHOTON PROCESSES;

EID: 80052374989     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz200738t     Document Type: Article

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