Chemical dynamics and reverse saturable absorption in di-furfuryl ether solutions

CR Mendonça, PS Batista, MF De Souza…

Index: Mendonca; Batista; De Souza; Zilio Chemical Physics Letters, 2001 , vol. 343, # 5-6 p. 499 - 506

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Abstract

We report on the chemical dynamics and nonlinear optical absorption of di-furfuryl ether (DFE) solutions. DFE molecules were derivatized from the room temperature furfuryl alcohol self-reaction, whose reaction kinetics was investigated with the Z-scan technique and laser- induced fluorescence. These molecules are shown to exhibit a pronounced reverse saturable absorption process. The magnitude of the excited-state absorption cross- ...