Phase disruption as a new design paradigm for optimizing the nonlinear-optical response
Optics
2023-07-19 v2
Abstract
The intrinsic optical nonlinearities of quasi-one dimensional structures, including conjugated chain polymers and nanowires, are shown to be dramatically enhanced by the judicious placement of a side group or wire of sufficiently short length to create a large phase disruption in the dominant eigenfunctions along the main path of probability current. Phase disruption is proposed as a new general principle for the design of molecules, nanowires and any quasi-1D quantum system with large intrinsic response and does not require charge donors-acceptors at the ends.
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@article{arxiv.1508.06560,
title = {Phase disruption as a new design paradigm for optimizing the nonlinear-optical response},
author = {Rick Lytel and Sean M. Mossman and Mark G. Kuzyk},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.06560},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
Updated Fig 2 and Fig 5, updated caption for Fig 4, minor changes in text