TWO-PHOTON ABSORBING PHENYLENEVINYLENE DERIVATIVE HAVING SILYLOXY MOIETIES IN DONOR UNITS
Abstract
Two-photon absorbing phenylenevinylene derivative having silyloxy moieties in electron donor units (EHSEA) was prepared. The two-photon absorption (TPA) cross-section value of this chromophore was found to be 1.93×10-48cm4sec/photon at 740 nm by using TPA-induced fluorescence method with 80 fs pulse laser. The nonlinear measurement with ns scale pulses has indicated that EHSEA exhibits an efficient optical power limiting activity. We have obtained micropatterns with high resolution by TPA-induced polymerization using EHSEA as a photosensitizer.