Nonlinear optical properties of porphyrin and chlorophyll dimers studied by degenerated four wave mixing [electronic resource]

As one of the important elements in natural and artificial electron transfer and energy transfer processes, porphyrin and its derivatives have received much attention in photoelectronics and photoelectronic materials. As our first attempt to relate the [pi]-[pi] electronic couplings between porphyri...

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Corporate Author: Argonne National Laboratory (Researcher)
Format: Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Oak Ridge, Tenn. : United States. Dept. of Defense ; distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 1992.
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Summary:As one of the important elements in natural and artificial electron transfer and energy transfer processes, porphyrin and its derivatives have received much attention in photoelectronics and photoelectronic materials. As our first attempt to relate the [pi]-[pi] electronic couplings between porphyrin macrocycles to apparent third order nonlinear susceptibilities, we measured [chi]([sup 3]) for several porphyrin and chlorophyll a derivatives, including dimers with different configurations. Our preliminary results show that the dimers have enhanced [chi]([sup 3]) compared to those of the monomer. This enhancement is related to the relative orientations between the two macrocycles in the dimers. The parallel dimers with close face-to-face distances seem to have the highest enhancement in [chi]([sup 3]). Thus, we believe that [chi]([sup 3]) is strongly related to the [pi]-[pi] electronic coupling between the two conjugated ring systems.
Item Description:Published through the Information Bridge: DOE Scientific and Technical Information.
01/01/1992.
"anl/chm/cp-78537"
" conf-930159--3"
"DE93006411"
International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) conference, Los Angeles, CA (United States), 16-23 Jan 1993.
Chen, L.X.Q.
Physical Description:Pages: (5 p) : digital, PDF file.