Issue 17, 2014

On the origin of the very strong two-photon activity of squaraine dyes – a standard/damped response theory study

Abstract

In the present work, we report the mechanism of a very large increase in the two-photon (TP) activity of squaraine based molecules upon changing the substituents. The replacement of a specific fused ring by ethylene or ethyne moieties enhances the TP transition strength of these molecules up to the order of 1013 au (∼1010 GM), both in the gas phase as well as in dichloromethane solvent. Our calculations decisively establish that the reason for this large enhancement in the TP activity of the studied systems is the severe decrease in the corresponding detuning energies. We explain this fact using damped response theory calculations and provide a novel design strategy to control the detuning energy of such molecules. The results are benchmarked against the available experimental findings.

Graphical abstract: On the origin of the very strong two-photon activity of squaraine dyes – a standard/damped response theory study

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
28 Dec 2013
Accepted
07 Mar 2014
First published
07 Mar 2014

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014,16, 8030-8035

Author version available

On the origin of the very strong two-photon activity of squaraine dyes – a standard/damped response theory study

Md. M. Alam, M. Chattopadhyaya, S. Chakrabarti and A. Rizzo, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014, 16, 8030 DOI: 10.1039/C3CP55485F

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