RESONANT OPTICAL NONLINEARITY OF FULLERENES IN FREESTANDING POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE FILMS

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JI, W [1 ]
TANG, SH [1 ]
XU, GQ [1 ]
CHAN, HSO [1 ]
NG, SC [1 ]
NG, WW [1 ]
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[1] NATL UNIV SINGAPORE,DEPT CHEM,SINGAPORE 0511,SINGAPORE
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10.1063/1.354508
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We have prepared films of polymethyl methacrylate in which fullerenes (a mixture of C60 and C70) are uniformly embedded. By performing both degenerate four-wave mixing experiments and irradiance-dependent transmission measurements with nanosecond laser pulses of 608-nm wavelength, the third-order nonlinear optical susceptibility of these films is determined to be of the order of 10(-10) esu. This susceptibility is dominated by its imaginary part. Excited-state absorption is the main mechanism responsible for the observed nonlinear susceptibility.
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