Nonlinear Optical Materials for the Smart Filtering of Optical Radiation

The control of luminous radiation has extremely important implications for modern and future technologies as well as in medicine. In this Review, we detail chemical structures and their relevant photophysical features for various groups of materials, including organic dyes such as metalloporphyrins...

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Published in:Chemical reviews 2016-11, Vol.116 (22), p.13043-13233
Main Authors: Dini, Danilo, Calvete, Mário J. F, Hanack, Michael
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Carbon - chemistry
Carbon - radiation effects
Coloring Agents - chemistry
Coloring Agents - radiation effects
Coordination Complexes - chemistry
Coordination Complexes - radiation effects
Dendrimers - chemistry
Dendrimers - radiation effects
Filters
Light
Materials
Metal Nanoparticles - chemistry
Metal Nanoparticles - radiation effects
Nanostructures - chemistry
Nanostructures - radiation effects
Optical Devices
Optical Phenomena
Optical properties
Optics and Photonics
Porphyrins - chemistry
Porphyrins - radiation effects
Quantum Dots - chemistry
Quantum Dots - radiation effects
Ultraviolet radiation
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Summary:The control of luminous radiation has extremely important implications for modern and future technologies as well as in medicine. In this Review, we detail chemical structures and their relevant photophysical features for various groups of materials, including organic dyes such as metalloporphyrins and metallophthalocyanines (and derivatives), other common organic materials, mixed metal complexes and clusters, fullerenes, dendrimeric nanocomposites, polymeric materials (organic and/or inorganic), inorganic semiconductors, and other nanoscopic materials, utilized or potentially useful for the realization of devices able to filter in a smart way an external radiation. The concept of smart is referred to the characteristic of those materials that are capable to filter the radiation in a dynamic way without the need of an ancillary system for the activation of the required transmission change. In particular, this Review gives emphasis to the nonlinear optical properties of photoactive materials for the function of optical power limiting. All known mechanisms of optical limiting have been analyzed and discussed for the different types of materials.
ISSN:0009-2665
1520-6890
DOI:10.1021/acs.chemrev.6b00033