Large third-order optical nonlinearity of self-assembled porphyrin oligomers. |
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| Authors: | Kazuya Ogawa Tieqiao Zhang Keitaro Yoshihara Yoshiaki Kobuke |
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| Affiliation: | Graduate School of Materials Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, CREST, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, 8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma, Nara 630-0101, Japan. |
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| Abstract: | Third-order nonlinear optical properties of two series of self-assembled porphyrin wires, one being terminated by zinc porphyrin and the other by free base porphyrin, were measured by femtosecond time-resolved optical Kerr effect. The hyperpolarizability values of the latter series were extremely large ranging from 10-30 to 10-29 esu, 10 times larger than the former. The behavior is accounted for by the contribution of terminal free base porphyrin to enhance the molecular polarization by acceptor nature toward central metalloporphyrin array. |
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