Non-Linear Optical Properties of Matter: From Molecules to Condensed Phases

Patrick Norman, Kenneth Ruud (auth.), Manthos G. Papadopoulos, Andrzej J. Sadlej, Jerzy Leszczynski (eds.)9781402048494, 1-4020-4849-1, 1402048505

Non-Linear Optical Properties of Matter: From Molecules to Condensed Phases attempts to draw together both theory and application in this field. As such it will be of interest to both experimentalists and theoreticians alike. Divided into two parts, Part 1 is concerned with the theory and computing of non-linear optical (NLO) properties while Part 2 reviews the latest developments in experimentation.

Part 1: Surveys the current advances in the computation of the NLO properties of molecules, crystalline solids and nano-particles. It examines the methods employed to compute the properties of both microscopic and macroscopic forms of matter.

Part 2: Covers the recent advances on the NLO properties of organometallic compounds, rotaxanes, glasses, Langmuir-Blodget films, gold and silver nano-particles etc. Strategies to develop novel NLO materials are also discussed along with the Hyper-Rayleigh scattering technique.

This book will be invaluable to researchers and students in academia and industry. It will be of particular interest to anyone involved in materials science, theoretical and computational chemistry, chemical physics, and molecular physics.

Table of contents :
Microscopic Theory of Nonlinear Optics….Pages 1-49
Accurate Nonlinear Optical Properties for Small Molecules….Pages 51-99
Determination of Vibrational Contributions to Linear and Nonlinear Optical Properties….Pages 101-128
SOS Methods in Calculations of Electronic NLO Properties….Pages 129-150
Kohn–Sham Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory with Applications to Linear and Nonlinear Properties….Pages 151-209
Non-Linear Pulse Propagation in Many-Photon Active Isotropic Media….Pages 211-249
Collective and Cooperative Phenomena in Molecular Functional Materials….Pages 251-282
Multiconfigurational Self-Consistent Field-Molecular Mechanics Response Methods….Pages 283-298
Solvatochromism and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Donor-acceptor π-Conjugated Molecules….Pages 299-318
Symmetry Based Approach to the Evaluation of Second Order NLO Properties of Carbon Nanotubes….Pages 319-335
Atomistic Molecular Modeling of Electric Field Poling of Nonlinear Optical Polymers….Pages 337-357
Nonlinear Optical Properties of Chiral Liquids….Pages 359-381
Recent Progress in Molecular Design of Ionic Second-order Nonlinear Optical Materials….Pages 383-418
Characterization Techniques of Nonlinear Optical Materials….Pages 419-459
Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Response of Metal Nanoparticles….Pages 461-508
From Dipolar to Octupolar Phthalocyanine Derivatives: The Example of Subphthalocyanines….Pages 509-535
NLO Properties of Metal Alkynyl and Related Complexes….Pages 537-569
Ruthenium Complexes as Versatile Chromophores with Large, Switchable Hyperpolarizabilities….Pages 571-608
Linear and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Selected Rotaxanes and Catenanes….Pages 609-643
Second Harmonic Generation from Gold and Silver Nanoparticles in Liquid Suspensions….Pages 645-669