Nonlinear optical properties materials

Chemistry produces many materials, other than drugs, that have to be optimized in their properties and preparation. Chemoinformatics methods will be used more and more for the elucidation and modeling of the relationships between chemical structure, or chemical composition, and many physical and chemical properties, be they nonlinear optical properties, adhesive power, conversion of light into electrical energy, detergent properties, hair-coloring suitabHty, or whatever. 

Optical properties of cyanines can be usefiil for both chiral substituents/environments and also third-order nonlinear optical properties in polymer films. Methine-chain substituted die arbo cyanines have been prepared from a chiral dialdehyde (S)-(+)-2-j -butylmalonaldehyde [127473-57-8] (79), where the chiral properties are introduced via the chiral j -butyl group on the central methine carbon of the pentamethine (die arbo cyanine) chromophore. For a nonchiral oxadicarbocyanine, the dimeric aggregate form of the dye shows circular dichroism when trapped in y-cyclodextrin (80). Attempts to prepare polymers with carbocyanine repeat units (linked by flexible chains) gave oligomers with only two or three repeat units (81). However, these materials... 

Crystals with one of the ten polar point-group symmetries (Ci, C2, Cs, C2V, C4, C4V, C3, C3v, C(, Cgv) are called polar crystals. They display spontaneous polarization and form a family of ferroelectric materials. The main properties of ferroelectric materials include relatively high dielectric permittivity, ferroelectric-paraelectric phase transition that occurs at a certain temperature called the Curie temperature, piezoelectric effect, pyroelectric effect, nonlinear optic property - the ability to multiply frequencies, ferroelectric hysteresis loop, and electrostrictive, electro-optic and other properties [16, 388],... 

B. Champagne, D.H. Mosley, J.G. Fripiat, and J.M. Andre, SPIE Proceedings, the International Society for Optical Engineering, Nonlinear Optical Properties of Organic Materials V1775, Til (1992). 

On the other hand, the nonlinear optical properties of nanometer-sized materials are also known to be different from the bulk, and such properties are strongly dependent on size and shape [11]. In 1992, Wang and Herron reported that the third-order nonlinear susceptibility, of silicon nanocrystals increased with decreasing size [12]. In contrast to silicon nanocrystals, of CdS nanocrystals decreased with decreasing size [ 13 ]. These results stimulated the investigation of the nonlinear optical properties of other semiconductor QDs. For the CdTe QDs that we are concentrating on, there have been few studies of nonresonant third-order nonlinear parameters. 

Some quinones, having the ability to form intra- and/or intermolecular hydrogen bonds, exhibit high molecular hyperpolarizability and are third-order nonlinear optical (NLO) materials. Compound 39 has a %(3) of 5 x 10 11 esu at 1.9 pm, and is a third-order NLO material.23 The optoelectric properties of quinoid compounds correlate with their structures in crystals or on thin films.23... 

Again a distorted tetrahedral coordination of Hg is achieved in the l,l-bis(diphenylphos-phino)ferrocene (dppf) complex with Hgl2. Both Hg—P in the dppf chelate ring and terminal Hg—I bonds (averages 256.5 pm and 277.6 pm, respectively) are clearly longer than in the previous examples all angles around Hg are close to the value for a tetrahedron. Nonlinear optical properties of the material have been studied.241... 

In the field of polymer chemistry the regio- and stereoselectivity of the Diels-Alder reaction is used for the concerted synthesis of structurally homogeneous double-stranded ladder polymers [39], which are useful materials with nonlinear optical properties and high electrical conductivity. It has turned out that the repeated Diels-Alder method is superior to an alternative two-step process, in which first an open chain precursor is formed followed by polymer ring closure as structural defects can occur [40]. 

The results of this research combined with the growing literature on structure-property relations in organic materials is moving us closer to the ultimate goal of developing a predictive capability for the nonlinear optical properties of molecules. 

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. 

The term nonlinear optical property refers to an optical property, which can be modified by exposing the material to intense light irradiation. In this section, we focus on the cascaded first- (/ 1 ) and third-order ( / ) susceptibilities describing nonlinear absorption (ESA and 2PA) and nonlinear refraction (n2) processes. Z-scan, pump-probe, and two-photon upconverted fluorescence techniques are among the most used experimental methods for determining optical nonlinearities. 

Perry, J. W. Nonlinear Optical Properties of Molecules and Materials. In Materials for Nonlinear Optics Chemical Perspectives, Marder, S. R. Sohn, J. D. Stucky, G. D., Eds. ACS Symposium Series 455 American Chemical Society Washington, DC, 1991, pp 67-88. 

Chiang, W. Thompson, M. E. Van Engen, D. Synthesis and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Inorganic Co-ordination Polymers. In Organic Materials for Nonlinear Optics II Hann, R. A., Bloor, D., Eds. Royal Society of Chemistry London, 1991 pp 210-216. 

In Nonlinear Optical Properties of Organic and Polymeric Materials Williams, D. ACS Symposium Series American Chemical Society Washington, DC, 1983. 

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