Two-photon absorption of new multibranched chromophores based on bis(diphenylamino)stilbene

Zezhu Huang, Xiaomei Wang, Bo Li, Changgui Lv, Jun Xu, Wanli Jiang, Xutang Tao, Shixiong Qian, Yiping Chui, Ping Yang

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Abstract

A series of new (E)-4,4′-bis(diphenylamino)stilbene derivatives have been synthesized to investigate nonlinear absorptivities with attention paid to the peripheral substituent effect and multibranched modification effect by the open aperture femtosecond Z-scan technique and the nanosecond nonlinear optical transmission (NLT), respectively. Comparing the two-photon absorptivity (TPA) observed of (E)-4,4′-bis(diphenylamino)stilbene (BDPAS) with those of its derivatives, we found that substituent group attached to the periphery of BDPAS has no obvious contribution to enhancement TPA and that the dramatic increase of effective TPA cross-sections of multibranched samples in nanosecond regime strongly suggests their larger excited-state absorption.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1084-1090
Number of pages7
JournalOptical Materials
Volume29
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2007
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Bis(diphenylamino)stilbene derivatives
  • Excited-state absorption (ESA)
  • Multibranched chromophore
  • Two-photon absorption (TPA)

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