New organometallic materials for nonlinear optics: metal <sigma>-arylacetylides

Stephan Houbrechts; Koen J. Clays; Andre P. Persoons; Victorio Cadierno; M. Pilar Gamasa; Jose Gimeno; Ian R. Whittall; Mark G. Humphrey

doi:10.1117/12.256164

1 November 1996 New organometallic materials for nonlinear optics: metal σ-arylacetylides

Stephan Houbrechts, Koen J. Clays, Andre P. Persoons, Victorio Cadierno, M. Pilar Gamasa, Jose Gimeno, Ian R. Whittall, Mark G. Humphrey

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Proceedings Volume 2852, Nonlinear Optical Properties of Organic Materials IX; (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.256164
Event: SPIE's 1996 International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation, 1996, Denver, CO, United States

Abstract

Hyper-Rayleigh scattering is used to investigate the nonlinear optical properties of novel organometallic compounds. For a series of ruthenium and gold y-arylacetylides, including some bimetallic complexes, the influence of the organometallic donor group, chain length and type of acceptor on the quadratic hyperpolarizability is studied. The hyperpolañzabiities found are among the highest (1027 esu) known for organometallic compounds. Moreover, electric-field induced second-harmonic generation confirms these values and indicates that only one major tensor component is present. Keywords: hyper-Rayleigh scattering, nonlinear optics, second-harmonic generation, organometallic compounds

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Stephan Houbrechts, Koen J. Clays, Andre P. Persoons, Victorio Cadierno, M. Pilar Gamasa, Jose Gimeno, Ian R. Whittall, and Mark G. Humphrey "New organometallic materials for nonlinear optics: metal σ-arylacetylides", Proc. SPIE 2852, Nonlinear Optical Properties of Organic Materials IX, (1 November 1996); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.256164

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