Title :
Excited state absorption in a strongly two-photon absorbing neat organic material
Author :
Sutherland, R.L. ; Brant, M.E. ; McLean, D.G. ; Rogers, E. ; Sankaran, B. ; Kirkpatrick, S.E. ; Fleitz, P.A.
Author_Institution :
Science Applications Int. Corp., Dayton, OH
Abstract :
We characterize the two-photon absorption and photophysics of a neat organic material. We show that the strong nonlinear absorption in the nanosecond regime is due to triplet-triplet absorption, the triplet state pumped by two-photon absorption
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; optical materials; optical pumping; photochemistry; triplet state; two-photon processes; excited state absorption; neat organic material; triplet state; triplet-triplet absorption; two-photon absorption;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-777-6
