DETERMINATION OF THE 2 1ST NONTRIVIAL ORIENTATIONAL ORDER PARAMETERS IN LB FILMS OF ROD-LIKE MOLECULES BY 3RD-ORDER SUM FREQUENCY MIXING

被引:6
作者
CHA, M
NEHER, D
EMBS, FW
MITTLERNEHER, S
STEGEMAN, G
机构
[1] Center for Research in Electro-Optics and Lasers, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32826
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
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D O I
10.1016/0009-2614(93)85348-R
中图分类号
O64 [物理化学(理论化学)、化学物理学];
学科分类号
070304 ; 081704 ;
摘要
We demonstrate a new method for investigating orientational order in Langmuir-Blodgett films built from rod-like poly[bis(m-butoxyphenyl)silane] molecules. Two laser beams with different input frequencies omega1 and omega2 were collinearly overlapped to generate mixed light at the frequency 2omega1 + omega2 using all possible permutations of the beam polarizations. From the independent tensor components of chi(3)(-omega3; omega1, omega1, omega2) the first non-trivial in-plane order parameters C2 and C4 could be deduced with high accuracy. The orientational order could be well described by a two-dimensional diffusion model.
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页数:7
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