Chinese Optics Letters, 2005, 3 (0s): 128, Published Online: Mar. 5, 2007
First hyperpolarizabilities of several azobenzene derivatives studied by hyper-Rayleigh scattering (HRS)
190.4710 Optical nonlinearities in organic materials 190.4410 Nonlinear optics, parametric processes 160.4330 Nonlinear optical materials 160.4890 Organic materials 300.6410 Spectroscopy, multiphoton
Abstract
The first hyperpolarizabilities ('beta') of four azobenzene derivatives are measured via hyper-Rayleigh scattering (HRS) technique at 1064 nm. These compounds show weak absorbance at 532 nm and neglectable two-photon fluorescence (TPF). Their static first hyperpolarizabilities ('beta0') are estimated by the classical two-level model. The effects of varying the variety and number of the acceptors from chloro to nitro substituents are studied. It is concluded that the first hyperpolarizabilities will be enhanced with increasing polarity or number of the acceptors, attributed to improved transferability of their 'pi'-conjugated electron clouds.
Jing Zhu, Xin Wang, Changgui Lv, Yiping Cui, Chaozhi Zhang, Guoyuan Lu. First hyperpolarizabilities of several azobenzene derivatives studied by hyper-Rayleigh scattering (HRS)[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2005, 3(0s): 128.