Nonlinear Optical Materials. Theory and Modeling

Content: Nonlinear optical materials : theory and modeling / Shashi P. Karna and Alan T. Yeates -- Can quantum chemistry provide reliable molecular hyperpolarizabilities? / Rodney J. Bartlett and Hideo Sekino -- Calculation of nonlinear optical properties of conjugated polymers / Bernard Kirtman -- Sum-over-state representation of nonlinear response properties in time-dependent Hartree-Fock theory : the role of state truncation / Hideo Sekino and Rodney J. Bartlett -- Early theoretical studies of third-order nonlinear electric susceptibilities / Hendrick F. Hameka -- Effect of higher excited configurations on the linear and nonlinear optical properties of organic molecules / Israel D.L. Albert, Tobin J. Marks, and Mark A. Ratner -- Frequency-dependent polarizabilties and hyperpolarizabilities of polyenes / Prakashan Korambath and Henry A. Kurtz -- Optical properties from density-functional theory / Mark E. Casida ... [et al.] -- A combined Hartree-Fock and local-density-functional method to calculate linear and nonlinear optical properties of molecules / Brett I. Dunlap and Shashi P. Karna -- Theory of nonlinear optical properties of quasi-1D periodic polymers / Janos J. Ladik -- Model Hamiltonians for nonlinear optical properties of conjugated polymers / Z.G. Soos, D. Mukhopadhyay, and S. Ramasesha -- Semiempirical quantum cell models for the third-order nonlinear optical response of conjugated polymers / David Yaron -- Multiphoton resonant nonlinear optical processes in organic molecules / Paras N. Prasad and Guang S. He.