Two-photon absorption properties of azulenyl compounds having a conjugated ketone backbone
Two-photon absorption properties of azulenyl compounds having a conjugated ketone backbone
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DOI:
10.1021/jp800415b
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发表时间:
2008-06-12
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2.9
通讯作者:
Ohta, Koji
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作者:
Hirakawa, Shoichiro;Kawamata, Jun;Ohta, Koji
Two-photon absorption (TPA) properties of newly synthesized conjugated ketone derivatives that include nonalternant azulenyl moieties in the pi-conjugation system, alpha,alpha'-bis(1-azulenylidene)cyclopentanone (1Az), alpha,alpha'-bis(2-azulenylidene)cyclopentanone (2Az), and alpha,alpha'-bis(6-azulenylidene)cyclopentanone (6Az) are reported. TPA spectra of these azulenyl compounds were measured using the open-aperture Z-scan method with a femtosecond laser. The TPA cross section at the peak position (sigma((2))(peak)) of 1Az was found to be the laraest among the three azulenyl compounds, which is almost 7 times larger than that of the alpha,alpha'-bis(1-naphthylidene)cyclopentanone (1Nph), an alternant isomer of 1Az with the same number of pi-electrons. The small detuning energies of the azulenyl compounds compared to those of 1Nph were responsible for the large TPA cross sections. We report that a compound having an azulenyl moiety can be a promising TPA material.