Linear absorption properties

Fig. 6. Dispersion of the electro-optic hyperpolarizabUity for chromophores with different linear absorption properties...

Alkylruthenium complexes Hu2 have been also designed for TPA (Fig. 22). Linear absorption properties show a weak bathochromic shift from the... 

Before being able to study the nonlinear optical properties of any material, it is necessary to have a complete understanding of its linear optical properties. Therefore, we start this section with a brief discussion of the techniques used to measure some of the most important linear properties, e.g., linear absorption, fluorescence, anisotropy, and fluorescence quantum yield. 

In most cases, the linear absorption is measured with standard spectrometers, and the fluorescence properties are obtained with commercially available spectrofluo-rometers using reference samples with well-known <1>F for calibration of the fluorescence quantum yield. In the ultraviolet and visible range, there are many well-known fluorescence quantum yield standards. Anthracene in ethanol (Cresyl Violet in methanol (commonly used reference samples for wavelengths of 350-650 nm. For wavelengths longer than 650 nm, there is a lack of fluorescence references. Recently, a photochemically stable, D-ji-D polymethine molecule has been proposed as a fluorescence standard near 800 nm [57]. This molecule, PD 2631 (chemical structure shown in Fig. 5) in ethanol, has linear absorption and fluorescence spectra of the reference PD 2631 in ethanol to... 

While the linear absorption and nonlinear optical properties of certain dendrimer nanocomposites have evolved substantially and show strong potential for future applications, the physical processes governing the emission properties in these systems is a subject of recent high interest. It is still not completely understood how emission in metal nanocomposites originates and how this relates to their (CW) optical spectra. As stated above, the emission properties in bulk metals are very weak. However, there are some processes associated with a small particle size (such as local field enhancement [108], surface effects [29], quantum confinement [109]) which could lead in general to the enhancement of the fluorescence efficiency as compared to bulk metal and make the fluorescence signal well detectable [110, 111]. 

Measurement of non-linear optical properties [580] also provides a means for characterizing size-quantized semiconductor particles. Third-order optical non-linearity of size-quantized semiconductor particles has been discussed in terms of resonant and non-resonant contributions [11]. Resonant non-linearity is expected to increase with decreasing particle size and increasing absorption coefficients. 

Information about nonlinear absorptive properties of a sample can be derived simply by measuring the sample transmission as a function of the incident light intensity. We note that Eq. (5) can therefore be inverted to read T-1 = 1 + fi2LI a linear dependence of the inverse transmission on the incident intensity can be used to determine the j82 value. Because of the ease of determining the value of fi2 with open-aperture Z-scan, Z-scan is often the preferred method for quickly determining the nonlinear absorption coefficient. Point-by-point transmission measurements can be undertaken to verify the applicability of Eq. (5). 

Long-chain a,o)-dicarboxylic acids have been condensed with diamino-isohexides, forming linear polyamides suitable for producing fibers having a silklike texture and higher moisture-absorption properties than nylon-like polymers.206... 

The real and imaginary parts of the refractive index are plotted schematically as a function of frequency in Figure 2. For the case where r= 0 there is no damping and therefore no absorption, n is real and corresponds to the refractive index of the medium. The situation where r is not equal to zero corresponds to optical absorption. This model reasonably describes the linear optical properties, in the absence of vibronic coupling, for typical organic molecules. 

The calculations predict that azobenzene derivatives have nearly identical dipole moments and molecular hyperpolarizabilities as the stilbenes. Selection of compounds for use in specific applications can therefore, be based on linear optical properties (absorption) and photochemical stability requirements without sacrifice of nonlinear optical response. 

The mathematical reconstruction of a property field, F(x,y), from its projection in the 0 direction is the basis of "Computerized Tomography" (1,2). An identical technique can be used to reconstruct a field of linear absorption coefficient functions in a combusting flow field from multiangular path integrated absorption measurements. The linear absorption coefficient is the familiar N.Q. product, where is the concentration of species i and Q. is the absorption cross section of species i at the frequency v. The Bouguer-Lambert-Beer law states that... 

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