Femtosecond spectroscopy of superfluorescent fluorenyl benzothiadiazoles with large two-photon and excited-state absorption

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 25, 2014, Pages 13790-13800

  Belfield, Kevin D ^a   Bondar, Mykhailo V ^b   Yao, Sheng ^a   Mikhailov, Ivan A ^c   Polikanov, Vyacheslav S ^c   Przhonska, Olga V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Ukraine)

^c PETERSBURG NUCLEAR PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; KETONES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTONS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; STIMULATED EMISSION; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES;

FEMTOSECOND TRANSIENT ABSORPTION; FLUORESCENCE QUANTUM YIELD; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL PROPERTIES; NONLINEAR OPTICAL APPLICATIONS; QUANTUM CHEMICAL CALCULATIONS; STIMULATED EMISSION DEPLETION MICROSCOPY; TWO PHOTON ABSORPTION (2PA); TWO-PHOTON FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY;

EXCITED STATES;

EID: 84919687020     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp503106k     Document Type: Article

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