Issue 2, 2006

Organic nonlinear optical materials: where we have been and where we are going

Abstract

Nonlinear optical (NLO) materials can be useful for a variety of applications varying from modulation of optical signals facilitated by the electro-optic effect—the effect whereby the refractive index of a material changes in response to an applied electric field—to microfabrication, sensing, imaging, and cancer therapy facilitated by multiphoton absorption, wherein molecules simultaneously absorb two or more photons of light. This short Focus article is a brief personal perspective of some of the key advances in second-order NLO materials and in multiphoton-absorbing materials, and of how and why these advances have led to renewed interest in organic NLO materials.

Graphical abstract: Organic nonlinear optical materials: where we have been and where we are going

Article information

Article type
40th Anniversary Article
First published
24 Nov 2005

Chem. Commun., 2006, 131-134

Organic nonlinear optical materials: where we have been and where we are going

S. R. Marder, Chem. Commun., 2006, 131 DOI: 10.1039/B512646K

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