TY - JOUR
T1 - Third-order optical nonlinearity of β-carotene homologues
AU - Fujiwara, Masazumi
AU - Yamauchi, Kensei
AU - Sugisaki, Mitsuru
AU - Yanagi, Kazuhiro
AU - Gall, Andrew
AU - Robert, Bruno
AU - Cogdell, Richard J.
AU - Hashimoto, Hideki
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - We investigate the third-order nonlinear optical property of a range of β-carotene homologues, which have different numbers (n) of conjugated C=C double bonds from n = 7 to 15, by using third-harmonic generation Maker fringe technique. The results clearly show that there is a remarkable enhancement of the third-order optical nonlinearity when n = 15, which is a four fold increase compared with n = 11 (i.e. β-carotene).
AB - We investigate the third-order nonlinear optical property of a range of β-carotene homologues, which have different numbers (n) of conjugated C=C double bonds from n = 7 to 15, by using third-harmonic generation Maker fringe technique. The results clearly show that there is a remarkable enhancement of the third-order optical nonlinearity when n = 15, which is a four fold increase compared with n = 11 (i.e. β-carotene).
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U2 - 10.1002/pssc.200881296
DO - 10.1002/pssc.200881296
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79251513295
VL - 6
SP - S31-S33
JO - Physica Status Solidi C: Conferences
JF - Physica Status Solidi C: Conferences
SN - 1862-6351
IS - SUPPL. 1
ER -