Fundamental limits of the dispersion of the two-photon absorption cross section

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作者
Moreno, JP [1 ]
Kuzyk, MG [1 ]
机构
[1] Washington State Univ, Dept Phys, Pullman, WA 99164 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
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10.1063/1.2104407
中图分类号
O64 [物理化学(理论化学)、化学物理学];
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070304 ; 081704 ;
摘要
We rigorously apply the sum rules to the sum-over-states expression to calculate the fundamental limits of the dispersion of the two-photon absorption cross section. A comparison of the theory with the data suggests that the truncated sum rules in the three-level model give a reasonable fundamental limit. Furthermore, we posit that the two-photon absorption cross section near the limit must have only three dominant states, so by default, the three-level model is appropriate. This ansatz is supported by a rigorous analytical calculation that the resonant term gets smaller as more states are added. We also find that the contributions of the nonexplicitly resonant terms cannot be neglected when analyzing real molecules with many excited states, even near resonance. However, puzzling as it may be, extrapolating an off-resonant result to resonance using only the resonant term of the three-level model is shown to be consistent with the exact result. In addition, the off-resonant approximation is shown to scale logarithmically when compared with the full three-level model. This scaling can be used to simplify the analysis of measurements. We find that existing molecules are still far from the fundamental limit; so, there is room for improvement. But, reaching the fundamental limit would require precise control of the energy-level spacing, independently of the transition dipole moments-a task that does not appear possible using today's synthetic approaches. So, we present alternative methods that can still lead to substantial improvements which only require the control of the transition moment to the first excited state. While it is best to normalize measured two-photon absorption cross sections to the fundamental limits when comparing molecules, we show that simply dividing by the square of the number of electrons per molecule yields a good metric for comparison. (c) 2005 American Institute of Physics.
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