ISSN:
1089-7690
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
We present a study on the ultrafast third-order nonlinearities of a novel series of iso-polydiacetylene oligomers (iso-PDAs). Unlike polydiacetylenes that contain a linearly-conjugated backbone, iso-PDAs have a backbone that is cross-conjugated. A new Kerr-gate technique, differential optical Kerr effect (DOKE) detection, is used to measure third-order nonlinear susceptibilities, χ(3), and second hyperpolarizabilities, γ, of monomer, dimer, trimer, pentamer, and heptamer samples in tetrahydrofuran (THF) solutions. A linear increase in γ as a function of the number of repeat units is observed for all samples except the monomer, suggesting that the fixed-length linearly conjugated segments dominate the electronic polarizability. An added increase to the oligomer nonlinearities due to communication along the cross-conjugated path is not observed. The largest nonlinearity was observed in the heptamer sample, displaying a second hyperpolarizability relative to the THF solvent of γheptamer/γTHF=181±9. In addition, an interesting feature arising out of the signal decay tail is present in the samples but absent in our THF solvent reference. © 2002 American Institute of Physics.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1447908
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