Spontaneous chirality in an octupolar discotic crystal

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8113, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Van Cleuvenbergen, Stijn ^a   Van Der Veen, Monique A ^a   Asselberghs, Inge ^a   Hennrich, Gunther ^b   Verbiest, Thierry ^a   Clays, Koen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chirality; Circular dichroism; Nonlinear optics; Octupoles; Second harmonic generation

Indexed keywords

DISCOTICS; NONLINEAR MATERIALS; OCTUPOLAR MOLECULES; OCTUPOLES; POLARIZATION PATTERNS; RIGHT CIRCULARLY POLARIZED; SECOND HARMONICS; SECOND ORDERS; SELF ASSEMBLED STRUCTURES;

CHIRALITY; CHROMOPHORES; CIRCULAR DICHROISM SPECTROSCOPY; DEPOLARIZATION; DICHROISM; ENANTIOMERS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HARMONIC GENERATION; POLARIZATION; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 80053472948     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.893488     Document Type: Conference Paper

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