Abstract
We present experimental data for the irradiance dependence of the optical nonlinearity of an organic material at different wavelengths across resonance. The material studied was a suspension of vanadyl-phthalocyanine nanocrystals in cyclohexane. The refractive and absorptive contributions to the nonlinearity were resolved by use of the z-scan technique with a tunable picosecond laser source. The observed dependence of the nonlinearity with irradiance is explained by excited-state absorption, and a three-level model is used to describe the nonlinear response. A fit to the experimental data is made, allowing the extraction of molecular parameters that are of interest for a full characterization of the nonlinearity.
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