Assessing limitations to the two-level approximation in nonlinear optics for organic chromophores by ab initio methods

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8113, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Coles, Matt M ^a   Peck, Jamie N ^a   Oganesyan, Vasily S ^a   Andrews, David L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ab initio calculations; Calculational methods; Electronic excited states; Molecular optics; Nonlinear optics; Quantum electrodynamics; Resonance; Two level systems

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; CALCULATIONAL METHOD; ELECTRONIC EXCITED STATE; MOLECULAR OPTICS; QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS; TWO-LEVEL SYSTEM;

CALCULATIONS; CHROMOPHORES; ELECTRIC EXCITATION; ELECTRODYNAMICS; EXCITED STATES; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; RESONANCE;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 80053529734     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.894006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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