Two-photon absorbing organic chromophores for optical limiting
1997
Strong optical limiting and large two-photon absorptivities are reported for a class of bisdonor diphenylpolyene derivatives with varying polyene bridge lengths. These molecules exhibit strong optical limiting using nanosecond pulses over a broad spectral range. Bis(diphenylamino)stilbene exhibits a 90 nm red shift of its optical limiting band, and only a minimal shift of about 13 nm of its lowest one-photon electronic absorption band relative to bis(di-n-butylamino)stilbene. This suggests a potential for broadband optical limiting with high transparency using mixtures of such compounds. Pulse width dependent nonlinear transmission measurements suggest that two-photon pumped excited-state absorption contributes significantly to the limiting of nanosecond pulses.
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