TY - JOUR
T1 - Optical Kerr effect in carbon diselenide
AU - Garetz, Bruce A.
AU - Khosrofian, John M.
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In summary. we have measuredt he optical Kerr susceptibility of liquid CSez and find it to be the largest known optical Kerr constant for a simple liquid. Other non-linear optical properties of CSe, should be sirni-larly large. Two-photon absorption,>oherent Raman and degenerate four-wave mixing studies of this molecule should also prove interesting. Comparison of CS2 and CSe, subpicosecond Kerr relaxation measurements should help sort out the various contributions involved in that process [ I;]_ We thank Professor Y. Okamoto of our department for his assistancei n purifying the CSe2 samples. We acknowledge the National Science Foundation (Grant No. ECS-7908109), the ResearchC orporation and the Institute of Imaging Sciences of PINY for support of this research_
PY - 1983/2/4
Y1 - 1983/2/4
N2 - We have measured the optical Kerr susceptibility of liquid carbon diselenide and find its value to be (74 ± 11) × 10-14 csu, with pump and probe wavelengths of 619 and 579 nm, respectively. This value is approximately three times the Kerr susceptibility of carbon disulfide, and is the largest value reported for a simple liquid. A strong dispersion in Kerr susceptibility is observed as the probe frequency is tuned toward the blue, and is likely due to two-photon near-resonant enhancement from the 1B2 state. We also report the visible and ultraviolet absorption spectra and linear refractive index measurements of liquid CSe2.
AB - We have measured the optical Kerr susceptibility of liquid carbon diselenide and find its value to be (74 ± 11) × 10-14 csu, with pump and probe wavelengths of 619 and 579 nm, respectively. This value is approximately three times the Kerr susceptibility of carbon disulfide, and is the largest value reported for a simple liquid. A strong dispersion in Kerr susceptibility is observed as the probe frequency is tuned toward the blue, and is likely due to two-photon near-resonant enhancement from the 1B2 state. We also report the visible and ultraviolet absorption spectra and linear refractive index measurements of liquid CSe2.
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U2 - 10.1016/0009-2614(83)85039-8
DO - 10.1016/0009-2614(83)85039-8
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:4243258584
VL - 94
SP - 494
EP - 497
JO - Chemical Physics Letters
JF - Chemical Physics Letters
SN - 0009-2614
IS - 5
ER -