Degenerate-wave mixing in new dithienylethylenes

We report the measurement of the degenerate fourth-wave mixing (DFWM) of new dithienylethylenes in chloroform solutions at λ=532 nm in ps regime with different numbers of π-conjugated bonds. From these measurements, we evaluated the values of the second order hyperpolarizabilities γ, which are about 103 larger than the γ value of CS2. The influence of π-conjugated bonds on the third-order susceptibilities and appropriate figures of merits is discussed. The more important seems to be the possibility of a simultaneous increase of the third-order susceptibilities, together with the decrease of the absorption coefficients that open a possibility of their use as promising materials for laser wavelengths mixing.