Review Article

Enhanced Two-Photon Absorption of Organic Chromophores: Theoretical and Experimental Assessments†

  1. Francesca Terenziani4,
  2. Claudine Katan1,*,
  3. Ekaterina Badaeva5,
  4. Sergei Tretiak2,3,*,
  5. Mireille Blanchard-Desce1

Article first published online: 10 NOV 2008

DOI: 10.1002/adma.200800402

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Advanced Materials

Advanced Materials

Volume 20, Issue 24, pages 4641–4678, December 17, 2008

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Terenziani, F., Katan, C., Badaeva, E., Tretiak, S. and Blanchard-Desce, M. (2008), Enhanced Two-Photon Absorption of Organic Chromophores: Theoretical and Experimental Assessments. Adv. Mater., 20: 4641–4678. doi: 10.1002/adma.200800402

Author Information

  1. 1

    Université de Rennes 1 CNRS, Chimie et Photonique Moléculaire (CPM) Campus de Beaulieu case 1003, 35042 Rennes (France)

  2. 2

    Theoretical Division, Center for Non-linear Studies (CNLS) Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545 (USA)

  3. 3

    Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT) Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545 (USA)

  4. 4

    Dipartimento di Chimica GIAF Parma University and INSTM UdR-Parma Parco Area delle Scienze 17/a, 43100 Parma (Italy)

  5. 5

    Department of Chemistry University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195-1700 (USA)

*Université de Rennes 1 CNRS, Chimie et Photonique Moléculaire (CPM) Campus de Beaulieu case 1003, 35042 Rennes (France).

  1. †

    We wish to thank Dr. Angus J. Bain, Dr. Olivier Mongin and Dr. Martinus H. V. Werts for stimulating discussions. MBD and ST gratefully acknowledge CNRS for an invited research associate position for ST. FT, CK and MBD acknowledge the Italo-French University and Égide for funding through the Galileo Project. This work was performed in part at the US Department of Energy, Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT), at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) (Contract DE-AC52-06NA25396). We also acknowledge support of Center for Non-linear Studies (CNLS) at LANL. FT acknowledges MIUR for funding through PRIN2006-031511. A portion of the calculations was funded by the “Centre Informatique National de l'Enseignement Supérieur” (CINES-France).

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 16 DEC 2008
  2. Article first published online: 10 NOV 2008
  3. Manuscript Revised: 13 MAY 2008
  4. Manuscript Received: 8 FEB 2008

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Keywords:

  • chromophores;
  • non-linear optics;
  • time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT);
  • two-photon absorption (TPA)

Abstract

Functional organic materials with enhanced two-photon absorption lead to new technologies in the fields of chemistry, biology, and photonics. In this article we review experimental and theoretical methodologies allowing detailed investigation and analysis of two-photon absorption properties of organic chromophores. This includes femtosecond two-photon excited fluorescence experimental setups and quantum-chemical methodologies based on time-dependent density functional theory. We thoroughly analyze physical phenomena and trends leading to large two-photon absorption responses of a few series of model chromophores focusing on the effects of symmetric and asymmetric donor/acceptor substitution and branching.

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