Multiphoton absorbing materials: molecular designs, characterizations, and applications

GS He, LS Tan, Q Zheng, PN Prasad - Chemical reviews, 2008 - ACS Publications
In the first quarter of the twentieth century, one of the most significant events in physics and
chemistry was the establishment of the quantum theories of radiation, matter, and their …

Designable 3D nanofabrication by femtosecond laser direct writing

YL Zhang, QD Chen, H Xia, HB Sun - Nano Today, 2010 - Elsevier
Femtosecond laser direct writing (FsLDW) has been established as a nano-enabler to solve
problems that are otherwise not possible in diversified scientific and industrial fields …

Why stainless steel corrodes

MP Ryan, DE Williams, RJ Chater, BM Hutton… - Nature, 2002 - nature.com
Stainless steels are used in countless diverse applications for their corrosion resistance.
Although they have extremely good general resistance, they are nevertheless susceptible to …

Enhanced two‐photon absorption of organic chromophores: theoretical and experimental assessments

F Terenziani, C Katan, E Badaeva, S Tretiak… - Advanced …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Functional organic materials with enhanced two‐photon absorption lead to new
technologies in the fields of chemistry, biology, and photonics. In this article we review …

Two-photon photopolymerization and 3D lithographic microfabrication

N Fatkullin, T Ikehara, H Jinnai, S Kawata… - NMR• 3D Analysis• …, 2004 - Springer
This chapter attempts to give an overview of the historical development and current progress
of femtosecond laser micro-nanofabrication based on multiphoton absorption, and particular …

Nonlinear refraction and absorption: mechanisms and magnitudes

DN Christodoulides, IC Khoo, GJ Salamo… - Advances in Optics …, 2010 - opg.optica.org
We provide an in-depth treatment of the various mechanisms by which an incident light
beam can produce an intensity-or flux-dependent change in the refractive index and …

Charge instability in quadrupolar chromophores: Symmetry breaking and solvatochromism

F Terenziani, A Painelli, C Katan… - Journal of the …, 2006 - ACS Publications
We present a joint theoretical and experimental work aimed to understand the spectroscopic
behavior of multipolar dyes of interest for nonlinear optics (NLO) applications. In particular …

Observation of stimulated emission by direct three-photon excitation

GS He, PP Markowicz, TC Lin, PN Prasad - Nature, 2002 - nature.com
Multiphoton processes, predicted theoretically in 1931, were for a long time considered to be
mainly of academic interest. This view changed when it was shown, that a two-photon …

Two-photon absorption cross-sections of common photoinitiators

KJ Schafer, JM Hales, M Balu, KD Belfield… - … of Photochemistry and …, 2004 - Elsevier
Recent interests in and applications of two-photon absorption (2PA) induced
photopolymerization have afforded advanced opportunities to perform three-dimensionally …

Fluorene analogues of prodan with superior fluorescence brightness and solvatochromism

OA Kucherak, P Didier, Y Mély… - The Journal of Physical …, 2010 - ACS Publications
In a search for environmentally sensitive (solvatochromic) dyes with superior properties, we
extended the electronic conjugation of one of the best solvatochromic dyes, Prodan, by …