International audienceThe third nonlinear optical susceptibility (χ〈3〉) of a new family of octupolar molecules with one, two, and three double bonds has been measured at 532 in tetrahydrofuran solutions by the degenerate four-wave mixing (DFWM) method. For comparison, we also measured the analogous dipolar subunits of the molecules. The second hyperpolarizability (γ) for these molecules was deduced. We found that octupolar molecules exhibit large second-order hyperpolarizability (γ) values. The γ values obtained for octupolar compounds are approximately 10 times larger than those of their corresponding dipolar subunits and 104 times larger than those of CS2, which is a reference material for DFWM
In this paper, we report the measurements of the third-order susceptibilities of new dithienylethylenes in solutions using the degenerate four-wave mixing technique at λ=532 nm in the picosecond regime. From these measurements we deduced the second-order hyperpolarizabilities γ values, which are about 103 larger than the γ value of CS2 and are comparable with the corresponding values for the new synthesized diphenylpolyene derivatives. We also determined the optical power limiting properties of the mentioned compounds using nanosecond laser pulses in the visible range. The dispersion of nonlinear absorption coefficients is obtained in the framework of Gaussian collimated beam propagation in sample. Kerr ellipsometry measurements are responsible for the excited absorption cross section and are spectrally shifted comparing with the optical limiting processes (up to 50 nm). The appropriate quantum chemical calculations are done. The contributions of electronic and vibration subsystems as well as contribution of the particular parts of each molecule into the output third nonlinear optical response are given.
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