Multiphoton and light driven multielectron processes in organics : new phenomena, materials, and applications ; [proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Multiphoton and Light Driven Multielectron Processes in Organics: New Phenomena, Materia

A state of the art description of organic photo- and electroactive molecules and their practical applications. Topics covered include molecular design and synthesis of highly light sensitive molecules and phenomena associated with electron-photon interaction in organic molecules: nonlinear beam propagation, photorefractivity, multiphoton excitations and absorption, charge photogeneration and mobility, photo- and electroluminescence, photochromism and electrochromism, organic synthesis, material engineering and processing. Applications are addresses: optical data storage, LEDs, optical signalling processing, optical power limiters. Front Matter....Pages i-x Nonlinear Materials and Processes for Electronic Devices and 3D Optical Storage Memory Applications....Pages 1-19 Two-Photon Processes: Dynamics and Applications....Pages 21-30 Linear and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Improved Single Crystal PTS....Pages 31-38 Optical Limiting: Characterization & Numerical Modeling....Pages 39-52 Theoretical Design of Organic Chromophores with Large Two-Photon Absorption Cross-Sections....Pages 53-65 Multiphoton Absorption and Optical Limiting....Pages 67-81 Molecular and Material Engineering for Optical Limiting with Fullerene Based Sol-Gel Materials....Pages 83-98 A New Approach for Optical Limiting in the IR....Pages 99-108 Quantum Confinement and Superradiance of Self-Trapped Excitons from 1D J -Aggregates....Pages 109-122 The Mixing of Frenkel- and Charge-Transfer Excitons in 1D-Structures: Application to PTCDA and MePTCDI....Pages 123-134 Modelling of Bithiophene Ultrafast Photophysics: Electronic Oscillator and Molecular Geometry Evolution....Pages 135-150 “Hole Burning Spectroscopy of Organic Glasses”....Pages 151-166 Leaky Modes in Nonlinear Optical Resonators....Pages 167-182 Towards Stable Materials for Electro-Optic Modulation and Photorefractive Applications....Pages 183-198 On the Coherent and Incoherent Image Conversion in Hybrid Polymer Liquid Crystal Structures....Pages 199-212 Optically Addressed Liquid Crystal Light Valves and their Applications....Pages 213-224 Dye-Assisted Optical Reorientation of Nematic Liquid Crystals....Pages 225-236 Photochromic Materials in Holography....Pages 237-248 Kinetics of Photochromic Processes in Dihydropyridine Derivatives....Pages 249-260 Photocolouration of Hypervalent Heterocycles....Pages 261-280 Photoconductivity of Organic Solids and their Confined Structures....Pages 281-298 Polarization Gratings in Disperse Red 1 Doped Polystyrene....Pages 299-310 Modeling PTCDA Spectra and Polymer Excitations....Pages 311-323 Physics of Organic Electroluminescence....Pages 325-344 Polydiacetylene Microcrystals and their Third-Order Optical Nonlinearity....Pages 345-356 Strong Coupling in Organic Semiconductor Microcavities Based on J-Aggregates....Pages 357-370 Electron Acceptors of the Fluorene Series in Photonics and Electronics: Recent Achievements and Perspectives....Pages 371-386 Design and Synthesis of Photochromic Systems....Pages 387-402 Photo-Induced Multielectron Transfer in Organic Crystals with Mixed-Stack Architecture....Pages 403-420 Polarization Dependent Holographic Write, Read and Erasure of Surface Relief Gratings on Azopolymer Films....Pages 421-436 Study of Stilbene Molecule Trans↔CIS Isomerization in First Excited State and Design of Molecular Random-Walkers....Pages 437-450 Cooperativity at Neutral-Ionic Transformation....Pages 451-465 Holographic Data Storage with Organic Polymer Films....Pages 467-474 NLO Polymers Containing as Active Chromophore in Dandionylpyridinium, Betaine Units: Synthesis, Modeling and Characterization....Pages 475-482 A Study on the Film Morphology and Photophysics of Polyfluorene....Pages 483-488 Synthesis and Characterization of the 2:1 Copper(II) Complexes With 4-Arylazo-Pyrazol-5-One Derivatives....Pages 489-502 A Study of Rydberg Bands in the Photoabsorption Spectra of Sandwich Organometallics: The First Step to the Investigation of Multiphoton Processes in the Organometallic Molecules....Pages 503-512 An Accurate Wave Model for Conservative Molecular Systems....Pages 513-526 Back Matter....Pages 527-549 Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Menton, France, 26-31 August, 1999