NATO Science Series E

Towards the Calculations of Polarizabilities of Infinite Polymeric Chains.- Conjugated Polymers: On the Parallel Between the Electrical Conduction Mechanism and the Nonlinear Optical Response..- On the Calculation of the Hyperpolarizabilities of Organic Molecules by the Sum Over Virtual Excited States Method.- Impact of Electron Quantum Confinement on Optical Nonlinearities.- Structural and Electronic Properties of Push-Pull Conjugated Molecules: A Theoretical Investigation of p-Amino-p' Nitrodiphenylacetylene Compounds.- Polar and Non-Polar Organic Molecules, Crystals and Langmuir-Blodgett Films for Quadratic Nonlinear Optics.- Design Considerations for Multi Component Molecular-Polymeric Nonlinear Optical Materials.- Empirical Systematics of Molecular Quadratic Optical Polarizability.- Surface and Adsorbate Analysis by Second-Harmonic Generation.- New Molecular Design for Noncentrosymmetric Crystal Structures: Lambda shape Molecules for Frequency Doubling.- Study of Novel Class of Second Order Nonlinear Optical (NLO) Polyurethanes.- EFISH Studies of Stilbene- and Thiophene-Derivatives.- Surface Second Harmonic Generation in Total Reflection.- Second Order Hyperpolarisabilities and Conformations of Functionalized Copolymers.- NPNN: A New Ferromagnetic Optically Nonlinear Organic Compound.- Second Harmonic Generation from Amphiphilic Dyes at the Air-Water Interface.- Strategy for Optimization of Molecular Materials for Nonlinear Optics and Photonics.- Excited State Nonlinear Optics.- Influence of Conformation on Two-Photon Spectra of Polyalkylthiophene.- Advances in the Synthesis of Electroactive Materials and in the Characterisation of Mechanisms of NLO Activity..- Thiophene Based Conjugated Polymers: THG Spectroscopy and Transient Photogenerated Polaron Enhancement of Cubic Optical Nonlinearity.- Electronic Properties of Conjugated Polymers with Aromatic or Hetero-Aromatic Cycle.- Oriented Conjugated Polymers for Nonlinear Optics: Properties of a Liquid Crystalline Polyacetylene. Epitaxial Growth of a Polydiacetylene PDCH.- Third Order Nonlinear Optical Effects in Conjugated Polymers and Dye Systems.- Phase Conjugation under Picosecond Two-Photon Absorption in Polydiacetylenes.- Relaxation of One- and Two-Photon Excitations in a Polydiacetylene Red Form: Frequency and Phase Resolved Analysis.- Excited State Absorption and Optical Limiting in Solutions of Metallophthalocyanines.- Third Order Optical Nonlinearities in Metal Dithiolate Complexes.- Nonlinear Optical Studies of Transition Metal Containing Conjugated Organic Monomeric and Polymeric Systems.- Organic Thin Films for Quadratic Optics.- Poled Epoxy Polymers for Optoelectronics.- Poled Glassy Polymers and Metallated Macrocycles for Nonlinear Optics.- Electrooptic Organic Waveguides: Optical Characterization.- Optoelectronic Devices with Nonlinear Polymers.- Two-Photon Absorption in Polydiacetylene Based Waveguides: Its Origin and Its Consequences..- Second Harmonic Generation from Langmuir Layers and Langmuir-Blodgett Films.- An Adaptation of the Prism-Film Coupler Method Used to Study PVA/Chrysoidin Non-linear Waveguides.