Multiphoton spectroscopy of triplet states - Department of Physics
Multiphoton spectroscopy of triplet states
Multiphoton spectroscopy of triplet states
Nonlinear absorption refers to the change in transmittance of a material as a function of the intensity of the radiation. Two-photon absorption is one of several multi-photon absorption (MPA) processes showing nonlinear effects in molecules. It is no doubt that the invention of the laser in 1960 was the key to observing such nonlinear optical phenomena, and numerous nonlinear effects have been discovered since.
Typical examples of organometallic system we worked with is square planar Pt(II) acetylides, often abbreviated Pt1, shown in Figure 1. A series of more than 20 different variants of the Pt-acetylides were studied in the thesis of Eirik Glimsdal during 2006-2009.
The spectra in Figure 2 show some of the most important results: by employing a flash photolysis system it was possible to determine the kinetics and absorbance properties of the triplet-excited states and assess their importance in applications of optical power limiting (laser protection devices). For more details, it is referred to the thesis of Eirik Glimsdal: [Spectroscopic characterization of some platinum acetylide molecules for optical power limiting applications, NTNU, Thesis 2009:165, ISBN: 978-82-471-1723-1].