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Special Issue
Materials and Devices for Nonlinear Optics
Part 1 of 2

Guest Editors
C. Andraud
Ecole Normale Superieure Lyon, France
F. Charra
Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique, Saclay, France
I. Rau
Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania

p. i-iv
Introduction
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p. 1-13
A Bird’s-Eye View of Nonlinear-Optical Processes: Unification Through Scale Invariance
Mark G. Kuzyk
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p. 15-26
Definition of Critical Structure/Function Relationships and Integration Issues for Organic Electro-Optic Materials
James G. Grote, Larry R. Dalton, Philip Sullivan, Bruce H. Robinson, Bruce Eichinger, Alex K.-Y. Jen, Stephanie Benight, Ilya Kosilkin and Denise H. Bale
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p. 27-41
Toward an Organic Pockels Cell Operating in the Visible
Timothy M. Pritchett, Robert C. Hoffman, Joshua A. Orlicki, Jan Andzelm, Adam M. Rawlett, Matthew C. Davis, Stephen Fallis, Andrew P. Chafin, Geoffrey A. Lindsay, Dong Park andWarren N. Herman
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p. 43-56
Second-Order Nonlinear Optical Properties of Metal Nanostructures and Metamaterials
Fu Xiang Wang, Francisco J. Rodriguez, Hannu Husu and Martti Kauranen
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p. 57-63
Poling of Electro–Optic Materials: Paradigms and Concepts
Grzegorz Pawlik, Antoni C. Mitus, Ileana Rau and Francois Kajzar
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p. 65-67
Global Activities in Semiconductor and Nanotechnology
Misoon Mah and Donald Silversmith
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p. 69-82
Nonlinear Optical Properties of Copper-Based Photonic Bandgap Structures at the Onset of Interband Transitions
Canek Fuentes-Hernandez and Bernard Kippelen
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p. 83-94
Second Harmonic Generation Microscopy in Molecular Crystalline Nano-Objects
Sophie Brasselet
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p. 95-113
Nonlinear Absorption Spectroscopy of Organic Dyes
Eric W. Van Stryland, David J. Hagan, Olga V. Przhonska, Seth R. Marder, Scott Webster and Lazaro A. Padilha
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p. 115-136
Nonlinear Spectroscopy and Multiphoton Processes in Molecules and Nanostructures
Ilaria Fortunati, Elisabetta Collini, Eleonora Garbin, Ida Ros, Francesco Todescato, Roberto Pilot, Camilla Ferrante, Raffaella Signorini and Renato Bozio
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p. 137-147
Nonlinear Absorption in Waveguides
Armand Rosenberg and James S. Shirk
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p. 149-161
Multiphoton Optical Properties of Semiconductor Core-Shell Quantum Dots for Photonic Applications
I. Fortunati, R. Signorini, R. Bozio, J. J. Jasieniak, A. Martucci, A. Antonello, G. Della Giustina, G. Brusatin, M. Guglielmi, V. Bello and G. Mattei
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p. 163-174
Excited-State Absorption of 4′-(5”’-R-pyrimidyl)-2, 2′:6′, 2”-terpyridyl Platinum(II) Phenylacetylide Complexes
Wenfang Sun,Yunjing Li, Timothy M. Pritchett, Zhiqiang Ji and Joy E. Haley
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p. 175-181
Pluronic Organic Fluorescent Probes for Two-photon Vascularisation Imaging
Mathieu Maurin, Laetitia Vurth, Jean-Claude Vial, Patrice Baldeck, Seth R. Marder, Boudewijn Van der Sanden and Olivier Stéphan
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p. 183-191
Anomalous Nonlinear Absorption Behavior in an Unsymmetrical Phthalocyanine Studied Near 800 nm using Femtosecond and Picosecond Pulses
S. Venugopal Rao, P. Prem Kiran, L. Giribabu, M. Ferrari, G. Kurumurthy, B. M. Krishna, H. Sekhar and D. Narayana Rao
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p. 193-197
Advances in Two-Photon Microstructuration of Polymers, Proteins and Metallic Materials with Q-switched Microlasers
Patrice L. Baldeck, Teodora Scheul, Jocelyne Bosson, Monica Iosin, Chih-Lang Lin, Guy Vitrant and Olivier Stephan
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p. 199-222
Two-Photon Induced Photochemistry for 3D Microstructuration
Patrice L. Baldeck, Olivier Stephan and Chantal Andraud
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p. 223-234
Enhanced Optical Limiting Performance through Nonlinear Scattering in Nanoparticles of CdS, co-doped Ag-Cu, and BSO
P. Prem Kiran, S. Venugopal Rao, M. Ferrari, B. M. Krishna, H. Sekhar, Shadak Alee and D. Narayana Rao
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p. 235-240
Various Mechanisms of Controlling Optical Nonlinearity in Organometallics: Wide Wavelength Range Studies
Katy A. Green, T. Christopher Corkery, Marie P. Cifuentes, Mark G. Humphrey and Marek Samoc
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p. 241-251
Luminescence and Two-Photon Absorption Cross Section of Novel Oligomeric Luminescent Conjugated Polythiophenes for Diagnostics of Amyloid Fibrils
Mikael Lindgren, Eirik Glimsdal, Andreas Åslund, Rosalyn Simon, Per Hammarström and K. Peter R. Nilsson
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p. 253-265
Two-Photon Excitation in Life Sciences: From Observation to Action
Frédéric Bolze, Annette Niehl, Manfred Heinlein, Nuria Mjdasiri, Jean-Luc Rehspringer, Nicolas Schaeffer, Pascal Didier,Youri Arntz, Yves Mély, Sylvestre Gug, Alexandre Specht, Maurice Goeldner and Jean-François Nicoud
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p. 267-275
Resonant Optical Structure for Optical Power Limiting Devices Designed for Near IR Active Imaging
P. Feneyrou and G. Berginc
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p. 277-285
Nanoobjects – Containing Structures for Aerospace and Laser Switching Systems
Natalia V. Kamanina, K.Yu. Bogdanov, Petr Ya. Vasilyev, Vladislav I. Studeonov, Alexander E. Pujsha,
Alexandra V. Shmidt, Anatoly V. Krestinin and Francois Kajzar
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p. 287-292
Ultrafast Conformational Dynamics in Molecules and Biomolecules Studied by Time-Resolved Circular Dichroism
François Hache
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p. 293-305
Controlling Molecular Organization for the Realization of Sub-Wavelength Light Sources
C. Fiorini-Debuisschert, I. Berline, G. Metgé, A. Apetrei, I. Arfaoui, L. Douillard, F. Charra, D. Bleger, D. Kreher, F. Mathevet and A.-J. Attias
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Correlation Between Photoconductive and Nonlinear Optical Characteristics of Fullerene- and Nanotubes-Doped Organic Composites
Natalia V. Kamanina, Alexander I. Plekhanov, Sergey V. Serov, Viktor P. Savinov, Pavel A. Shalin and Francois Kajzar
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