Abstract
The third-order nonlinear optical properties of poly(1,4-phenylene vinylene) (PPV), poly(2-bromo-1,4-phenylene vinylene) (BrPPV) and poly(2-chloro-1,4-phenylene vinylene) (ClPPV) were studied by forward degenerate four-wave mixing (DFWM). They have large and ultrafast third-order optical nonlinear responses, which mainly arise from the distortion of the large π-conjugated electronic charge distribution in the backbone. It was found that there was a significant contribution to π-electron density and thus χ (3) values from the substituents at the phenylene ring.
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