Syntheses, characterization, and optical limiting properties of heterometallic cluster-containing polymers

Nigel T. Lucas; Eleni G. A. Notaras; Mark G. Humphrey; Marek Samoc; Barry Luther-Davies

doi:10.1117/12.505289

10 November 2003 Syntheses, characterization, and optical limiting properties of heterometallic cluster-containing polymers

Nigel T. Lucas, Eleni G. A. Notaras, Mark G. Humphrey, Marek Samoc, Barry Luther-Davies

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Proceedings Volume 5212, Linear and Nonlinear Optics of Organic Materials III; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.505289
Event: Optical Science and Technology, SPIE's 48th Annual Meeting, 2003, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Transition metal carbonyl clusters incorporating group 6 (molybdenum, tungsten) and iridium atoms in a tetrahedral or butterfly-shaped four-atom cluster core, together with carbonyl, cyclopentadienyl and alkyne ligands, have been synthesized and incorporated into oligourethanes, and their optical limiting properties assessed by open-aperture Z-scan (ns pulses, 523 nm) and time-resolved pump-probe studies (ps pulses, 527 nm). The Z-scan studies reveal that the tetrahedral [M₂Ir₂] cluster cores (M = Mo, W) displayed a greater effective nonlinear absorption coefficent β₂ than the [MoIr₃] cores; the tungsten example, W₂Ir₂(CO)₁₀(η-C₅H₅)₂, exhibited the highest response. Substitution at the cyclopentadienyl group (including incorporation into a polymer backbone) had little effect on the response measured. A time-resolved investigation of the alkyne-adduct Mo₂Ir₂(μ₄-η²-MeC₂Ph)(CO)₈(η-C₅H₄Me)₂ using picosecond pulses at 527 nm reveals optical-power-limiting behaviour that results from electronic processes [specifically, a fast nonlinear absorption process followed by reverse saturable absorption involving long-lived (>1000 ps) metastable excited states].

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Nigel T. Lucas, Eleni G. A. Notaras, Mark G. Humphrey, Marek Samoc, and Barry Luther-Davies "Syntheses, characterization, and optical limiting properties of heterometallic cluster-containing polymers", Proc. SPIE 5212, Linear and Nonlinear Optics of Organic Materials III, (10 November 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.505289

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