CHAPTER 1 One-Photon Absorption Theory 1
References 3
CHAPTER 2 Charge Transfer and Electron-Hole Coherence in OPA 5
References 7
CHAPTER 3 Application of OPA 9
3.1 Biology 9
3.1.1 Retinal proteins（rhodopsins） 9
3.1.2 Green fluorescent protein 16
3.2 Enenrgy materials 24
3.2.1 Quinoidal charge delocalization in poly-p-phenylene cation radical 24
3.2.2 Neutral and charged π-dimeric quinquethiophenes 31
3.2.3 Surface-enhanced resonance Raman scattering 39
3.2.4 Near- and deep-UV resonance Raman spectroscopy of pyrazine-Al4 complex and Al3-pyrazine-Al3 junction 51
References 60
CHAPTER 4 Two-Photon Absorption 71
4.1 TPA section 71
4.2 Experimental methods and TPA materials 74
References 80
CHAPTER 5 Polarizabilities in Absorption Processes 83
References 85
CHAPTER 6 Charge Transfer and Electron-Hole Coherence in TPA 86
6.1 3D cube and 2D site representations for TPA 86
6.2 Quantum chemical calculations 88
6.3 Visualizations of transition dipoles,charge transfer and electron-hole coherence on electronic state transitions between excited states for TPA 91
6.4 Photoexcitation mechanisms of centrosymmetric and asymmetric fluorine derivatives in TPA 98
References 110
CHAPTER 7 Application of TPA 113
7.1 Two-photon photophysical properties of tri-9-anthrylborane 113
7.2 Spectroscopic and theoretical studies on the photophysical properties of dichlorotriazine derivatives 124
References 133
CHAPTER 8 Modeling Examples of Photon Absorptions and Nonlinear Properties in Pro-Aromatic Chromophores 138
References 150
CHAPTER 9 Modeling Examples of Simulated Polymethine Dyes for All-Optical Witching 154
Summary 165
References 165
Acknowledgements 168