Using a wide variety of quantum-chemical methods we have analyzed in detail the linear and non-linear optical properties of [60]fullerene-chromophore dyads of different electron-donor character. The dyads are composed of [60]fullerene covalently linked with 2,1,3-benzothiadiazole and carbazole derivatives. Linear scaling calculations of molecular (hyper)polarizabilities were performed using wav...

Fourier transform Raman and infrared spectra of 4-hydroxy-2,6-dimethyl pyrimidine (HDMP) were recorded and interpreted by comparison with respective theoretical spectra calculated using HF and B3LYP methods. The HDMP equilibrium geometry with Cs symmetry, harmonic vibrational frequencies, infrared and Raman intensities were determined using HF/6-311G and B3LYP/6-311G level of theories. The band...

We demonstrate that the tuning of the light emission from red to blue in dihydrolipoic acid (DHLA) capped Ag29 nanoclusters can be trigged with one and two photon excitations. The cluster stoichiometry was determined with mass spectrometry and found to be Ag29(DHLA)12. In a detailed optical investigation, we show that these silver nanoclusters exhibit a strong red photoluminescence visible to t...

We report here a comparative theoretical and experimental study of four triazine-based hydrazone derivatives. The hydrazones are synthesized by a three step process from commercially available benzil and thiosemicarbazide. The structures of all compounds were determined by using the UV-Vis., FT-IR, NMR (1H and 13C) spectroscopic techniques and finally confirmed unequivocally by single crystal X...

We use nonlinear beam deflection to separate the bound-electronic and nuclearrotational responses in gas-phase CS2. This allows a direct comparison of the second hyperpolarizability to our liquid CS2 measurements considering local-field effects. OCIS codes: (190.0190) Nonlinear optics, (190.3270) Kerr effect, (190.5650) Raman effect, (350.3250) Isotope separation

The second hyperpolarizability 7 of a molecule plays a role in non-linear optical processes [ 1,2] as well as in intermolecular interactions [3,4]. Usually y(--wo; WI, ~2, ~3) is measured by optical methods such as the dc Kerr effect, electric-field-induced second-harmonic generation (ESHG) of third-harmonic generation (THG), where these processes differ in the choice of the frequency arguments...

The IR and Raman spectra of the title compound have been recorded and analyzed. The harmonic vibrational wavenumbers were calculated theoretically using Gaussian09 software package. Calculations were performed by HF and DFT levels using the standard 6-31G* basis sets. The data obtained from vibrational wavenumber calculations are used to assign vibrational bands found in the IR and Raman spectr...

The nonlinear coefficients, n4, of the time-dependent refractive index for argon are calculated in the non-resonant optical regime. Second-order polynomial fitting of DC-Kerr, γ((2))(-ω; ω, 0, 0), electric field induced second harmonic generation (ESHG), γ((2))(-2ω; ω, ω, 0), and static second-order hyperpolarizability, γ((2))(0; 0, 0, 0), is performed using an auxiliary electric field approach...