Third-Order Nonlinearities in Organic Polymers and the Role of Microscopic Cascading of Second-Order Hyperpolarizabilities

Gaetano Assanto CREOL, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, 32826, USA

Dieter Neher CREOL, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, 32826, USA

George I. Stegeman CREOL, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, 32826, USA

William E. Torruellas Raytheon Research Division, 131 Spring Street, Lexington, MS, 02173, USA

Manuel B. Marques Centro de Fisica da Universidade do Porto (INIC), 4000, Porto, Portugal

Winfried H. G. Horsthuis AKZO Research Laboratories, Arnhem, P.O. Box 9300, 6800, SB Arnhem, The Netherlands

Guus R. Möhlmann AKZO Research Laboratories, Arnhem, P.O. Box 9300, 6800, SB Arnhem, The Netherlands

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Abstract

We investigate the third-order nonlinearity of DANS and DAN2 side-chain polymers by tunable third-harmonic generation and nonlinear distributed coupling. The large third-order susceptibility can be interpreted in terms of microscopic cascading of second-order hyperpolarizabilities.

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