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Title: Second-harmonic generation in a polymer Langmuir - Blodgett film

Abstract

Second-harmonic generation was used to investigate nonlinear optical properties and the structure of multilayer Langmuir - Blodgett films of a copolymer of fluoroalkylmethacrylate with methacrylates containing an azo dye and a cinnamoyl group inside a chain. Quantum-chemical calculations were made of the components of the molecular hyperpolarisability tensor in which the intermolecular interactions were taken into account. The orientation of nonlinear optical fragments of a polymer chain relative to the substrate and components of the quadratic optical susceptibility tensor of the film were determined. (nonlinear optical phenomena)

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  1. Institute of Macromolecular Compounds, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg (Russian Federation)
  2. A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow (Russian Federation)
  3. Institute of Physical Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow (Russian Federation)
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21439447
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Journal Article
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Journal Name: Quantum Electronics (Woodbury, N.Y.); Journal Volume: 28; Journal Issue: 9; Other Information: DOI: 10.1070/QE1998v028n09ABEH001328
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; AZO DYES; COPOLYMERS; FILMS; HARMONIC GENERATION; INTERMOLECULAR FORCES; LAYERS; METHACRYLATES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SUBSTRATES; TENSORS; AZO COMPOUNDS; CARBOXYLIC ACID SALTS; DYES; FREQUENCY MIXING; OPTICS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; POLYMERS

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Ivanova, V N, Kudryavtsev, V V, Lebedeva, G K, Maslyanitsyn, I A, Shigorin, V D, and Chudinova, G K. Second-harmonic generation in a polymer Langmuir - Blodgett film. United States: N. p., 1998. Web. doi:10.1070/QE1998V028N09ABEH001328.
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Ivanova, V N, Kudryavtsev, V V, Lebedeva, G K, Maslyanitsyn, I A, Shigorin, V D, & Chudinova, G K. Second-harmonic generation in a polymer Langmuir - Blodgett film. United States. doi:10.1070/QE1998V028N09ABEH001328.
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Ivanova, V N, Kudryavtsev, V V, Lebedeva, G K, Maslyanitsyn, I A, Shigorin, V D, and Chudinova, G K. Wed . "Second-harmonic generation in a polymer Langmuir - Blodgett film". United States. doi:10.1070/QE1998V028N09ABEH001328.
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@article{osti_21439447,
title = {Second-harmonic generation in a polymer Langmuir - Blodgett film},
author = {Ivanova, V N and Kudryavtsev, V V and Lebedeva, G K and Maslyanitsyn, I A and Shigorin, V D and Chudinova, G K},
abstractNote = {Second-harmonic generation was used to investigate nonlinear optical properties and the structure of multilayer Langmuir - Blodgett films of a copolymer of fluoroalkylmethacrylate with methacrylates containing an azo dye and a cinnamoyl group inside a chain. Quantum-chemical calculations were made of the components of the molecular hyperpolarisability tensor in which the intermolecular interactions were taken into account. The orientation of nonlinear optical fragments of a polymer chain relative to the substrate and components of the quadratic optical susceptibility tensor of the film were determined. (nonlinear optical phenomena)},
doi = {10.1070/QE1998V028N09ABEH001328},
journal = {Quantum Electronics (Woodbury, N.Y.)},
number = 9,
volume = 28,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Sep 30 00:00:00 EDT 1998},
month = {Wed Sep 30 00:00:00 EDT 1998}
}
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DOI:  10.1070/QE1998V028N09ABEH001328
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