Nonlinear optics, chirality, magneto-optics: A serendipitous road [Invited]

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 5-16

  Persoons, Andre ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR SYSTEMS; ORGANIC MAGNETISM; SECOND ORDER NONLINEAR OPTICS;

CHIRALITY; ENANTIOMERS;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 84862125431     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.1.000005     Document Type: Article

References (53)

1. F. Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man (The Free Press, 1992).
2. M. Kauranen, T. Verbiest, and A. Persoons, "Chiral materials in second-order nonlinear optics," J. Nonlinear Opt. Phys. Mater. 8(2), 171-189 (1999).
3. S. Sioncke, T. Verbiest, and A. Persoons, "Second-order nonlinear optical properties of chiral materials," Mater. Sci. Eng. R42, 115-155 (2003).
4. All serious students of nonlinear optics should have copies of the following books, in order of mathematical depth first editions given, but see subsequent editions also: G. C. Baldwin, An Introduction to Nonlinear Optics (Plenum Press, 1969)
5. T. Verbiest, K. Clays, and V. Rodriguez, Second-Order Nonlinear Optical Characterization Techniques(CRC Press, 2009)
6. P. N. Prasad and D. J. Williams, Introduction to Nonlinear Optical Effects in Molecules and Polymers (Wiley, 1991)
7. D. S. Chemla and J. Zyss, eds., Nonlinear Optical Properties of Organic Molecules and Crystals (Academic Press, 1987)
8. R. W. Boyd, Nonlinear Optics (Academic Press, 1992)
9. A. Yariv, Quantum Electronics (Wiley and Sons, 1967)
10. Y. R. Shen, The Principles of Nonlinear Optics (Wiley, 1984)
11. N. Bloembergen, Nonlinear Optics (W. A. Benjamin, 1965).
12. P. A. Franken, A. E. Hill, C. W. Peters, and G. Weinreich, "Generation of optical harmonics," Phys. Rev. Lett. 7(4), 118-119 (1961).
13. T. H. Maiman, "Stimulated optical radiation in ruby," Nature 187(4736), 493-494 (1960).
14. A. Persoons and L. Hellemans, "New electric field methods in chemical relaxation spectrometry," Biophys. J. 24(1), 119-134 (1978).
15. A. D. Buckingham, "Theory of the dielectric constant at high field strengths," J. Chem. Phys. 25(3), 428-434 (1956).
16. M. G. Kuzyk and C. W. Dirk, eds., Characterisation Techniques and Tabulations for Organic Nonlinear Optical Materials (Marcel Dekker, 1998).
17. K. D. Singer, J. E. Sohn, and S. J. Lalama, "Second harmonic-generation in poled polymer films," Appl. Phys. Lett. 49(5), 248-250 (1986).
18. K. D. Singer, M. G. Kuzyk, and J. E. Sohn, "Second order linear-optical processes in orientationally ordered materials: relationship between molecular and macroscopic properties," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 4(6), 968-976 (1987).
19. D. M. Burland, R. D. Miller, and C. A. Walsh, "Second-order nonlinearity in poled-polymer systems," Chem. Rev. 94(1), 31-75 (1994).
20. L. R. Dalton, W. H. Steier, B. H. Robinson, C. Zhang, A. Ren, S. Garner, A. Chen, T. Londergan, L. Irwin, B. Carlson, L. Fifield, G. Phelan, C. Kincaid, J. Amend, and A. Jen, "From molecules to opto-chips: organic electro-optic materials," J. Mater. Chem. 9(9), 1905-1920 (1999).
21. S. R. Marder, B. Kippelen, A. K.-Y. Jen, and N. Peyghambarian, "Design and synthesis of chromophores and polymers for electro-optic and photorefractive applications," Nature 388(6645), 845-851 (1997).
22. L. D. Barron, Molecular Light Scattering and Optical Activity (Cambridge University Press, 1982).
23. A. Lakhtakia, Selected Papers on Natural Optical Activity (SPIE, 1990).
24. J. A. Giordmaine, "Nonlinear optical properties of liquids," Phys. Rev. 138(6A), A1599-A1606 (1965).
25. P. M. Rentzepis, J. A. Giordmaine, and K. W. Wecht, "Coherent optical mixing in optically active liquids," Phys. Rev. Lett. 16(18), 792-794 (1966).
26. T. Petralli-Mallow, T. M. Wong, J. D. Byers, H. I. Yee, and J. M. Hicks, "Circular dichroism spectroscopy at interfaces: a surface second harmonic generation study," J. Phys. Chem. 97(7), 1383-1388 (1993).
27. T. Verbiest, M. Kauranen, A. Persoons, M. Ikonen, J. Kurkela, and H. Lemmetyinen, "Nonlinear optical activity and biomolecular chirality," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 116(20), 9203-9205 (1994).
28. M. M. Kauranen, T. Verbiest, A. Persoons, E. W. Meijer, M. N. Teerenstra, A. J. Schouten, R. J. M. Nolte, and E. E. Havinga, "Chiral effects in the second-order optical nonlinearity of a poly(isocyanide) monolayer," Adv. Mater. (Deerfield Beach Fla.) 7(7), 641-644 (1995).
29. M. Kauranen, J. J. Maki, T. Verbiest, S. Van Elshocht, and A. Persoons, "Quantitative determination of electric and magnetic second-order susceptibility tensors of chiral surfaces," Phys. Rev. B 55(4), R1985-R1988 (1997).
30. M. Kauranen, T. Verbiest, J. J. Maki, and A. Persoons, "Nonlinear optical properties of chiral polymers," Synth. Met. 81(2-3), 117-120 (1996).
31. J. J. Maki and A. Persoons, "One-electron second-order optical activity of a helix," J. Chem. Phys. 104(23), 9340-9348 (1996).
32. M. Kauranen, C. Boutton, T. Verbiest, M. N. Teerenstra, K. Clays, A. J. Schouten, R. J. M. Nolte, and A. Persoons, "Supramolecular second-order nonlinearity of polymers with orientationally correlated chromophores," Science 270(5238), 966-969 (1995).
33. S. Van Elshocht, T. Verbiest, M. Kauranen, A. Persoons, B. M. W. Langeveld-Voss, and E. W. Meijer, "Direct evidence of the failure of electric-dipole approximation in second harmonic generation from a chiral polymer film," J. Chem. Phys. 107(19), 8201-8203 (1997).
34. A. Persoons, M. Kauranen, S. Van Elshocht, T. Verbiest, L. Ma, L. Pu, B. M. W. Langeveld-Voss, and E. W. Meijer, "Chiral effects in second-order nonlinear optics," Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. (Phila. Pa.) 315(1), 93-98 (1998).
35. T. Verbiest, S. Sioncke, G. Koeckelberghs, C. Samyn, A. Persoons, E. Botek, J. M. André, and B. Champagne, ""Nonlinear optical properties of spincoated films of chiral polythiophenes," Chem. Phys. Lett. 404(1-3), 112-115 (2005).
36. C. Nuckolls, T. J. Katz, T. Verbiest, S. V. Elshocht, H. G. Kuball, S. Kiesewalter, A. J. Lovinger, and A. Persoons, "Circular dichroism and UV-Visible absorption spectra of the Langmuir-Blodgett films of an aggregating helicene," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 120(34), 8656-8660 (1998).
37. T. Verbiest, S. V. Elshocht, M. Kauranen, L. Hellemans, J. Snauwaert, C. Nuckolls, T. J. Katz, and A. Persoons, "Strong enhancement of nonlinear optical properties through supramolecular chirality," Science 282(5390), 913-915 (1998).
38. T. Verbiest, S. Sioncke, A. Persoons, L. Vyklický, and T. J. Katz, "Electric-field-modulated circular-difference effects in second-harmonic generation from a chiral liquid crystal," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 41(20), 3882-3884 (2002).
39. B. Busson, M. Kauranen, C. Nuckolls, T. J. Katz, and A. Persoons, "Quasi-phase-matching in chiral materials," Phys. Rev. Lett. 84(1), 79-82 (2000).
40. D. Beljonne, Z. Shuai, J. L. Bredas, M. Kauranen, T. Verbiest, and A. Persoons, "Electro-optic response of chiral helicenes in isotropic media," J. Chem. Phys. 108(4), 1301-1304 (1998).
41. F. Araoka, T. Verbiest, K. Clays, and A. Persoons, "Interactions of twisted light with chiral molecules: an experimental investigation," Phys. Rev. A 71(5), 055401 (2005).
42. E. S. Barr, "Men and milestones in optics. V: Michael faraday," Appl. Opt. 6(4), 631-637 (1967).
43. M. Mansuripur, "Classical Optics and Its Applications" (Cambridge University Press, 2002), Chap. 10.
44. J. P. van der Ziel, P. S. Pershan, and L. D. Malmstrom, "Optically-induced magnetization resulting from the inverse Faraday effect," Phys. Rev. Lett. 15(5), 190-193 (1965).
45. E. Botek, B. Champagne, T. Verbiest, P. Gangopadhyay, and A. Persoons, "A joint theoretical-experimental investigation of the Faraday effect in benzene, toluene, and p-xylene," ChemPhysChem 7(8), 1654-1656 (2006).
46. P. Gangopadhyay, S. Foerier, G. Koeckelberghs, M. Vangheluwe, A. Persoons, T. Verbiest, "Efficient Faraday rotation in conjugated polymers," Proc. SPIE 6331, 63310Z (2006).
47. G. Koeckelberghs, M. Vangheluwe, K. V. Doorsselaere, E. Robijns, A. Persoons, and T. Verbiest, "Regioregularity in Poly(3-alkoxythiophene)s: effects on the Faraday Rotation and polymerization mechanism," Macromol. Rapid Commun. 27(22), 1920-1925 (2006).
48. P. Gangopadhyay, R. Voorakaranam, A. Lopez-Santiago, S. Foerier, J. Thomas, R. A. Norwood, A. Persoons, and N. Peyghambarian, "Faraday rotation measurements on thin films of regioregular alkyl-substituted polythiophene derivatives," J. Phys. Chem. C 112(21), 8032-8037 (2008).
49. P. Gangopadhyay, G. Koeckelberghs, and A. Persoons, "Magneto-optic properties of regioregular polyalkylthiophenes," Chem. Mater. 23(3), 516-521 (2011).
50. G. Martin-Gassin, E. Benichou, G. Bachelier, I. Russier-Antoine, Ch. Jonin, and P. F. Brevet, "Compression induced chirality in dense molecular films at the air-water interface probed by second harmonic generation," J. Phys. Chem. C 112(33), 12958-12965 (2008).
51. M. J. Huttunen, M. Virkki, M. Erkintalo, E. Vuorimaa, A. Efimov, H. Lemmetyinen, and M. Kauranen, "Absolute probe of surface chirality based on focused circularly-polarized light," J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 1(12), 1826-1829 (2010).
52. M. Zdanowicz, S. Kujala, H. Husu, and M. Kauranen, "Effective medium multipolar tensor analysis of second-harmonic generation from metal nanoparticles," N. J. Phys. 13(2), 023025 (2011).
53. M. Kuwata-Gonokami, N. Saito, Y. Ino, M. Kauranen, K. Jefimovs, T. Vallius, J. Turunen, and Y. Svirko, "Giant optical activity in quasi-two-dimensional planar nanostructures," Phys. Rev. Lett. 95(22), 227401 (2005).