Influence of different peripheral substituents on the nonlinear optical properties of cobalt phthalocyanine core

Abstract

In this article, we show how the substituting different peripheral substituents around the cobalt phthalocyanine core correlate with nonlinear optical properties. We present the results on nonlinear optical properties of solution of cobalt phthalocyanine (CoPc), cobalt phthalocyanine with DNA-CTMA surfactant complex (CoPc-DNA-CTMA), and cobalt phthalocyanine with liquid crystal (CoPc-LC) measured by degenerate four-wave mixing (DFWM) method at the 532 nm wavelength region. We found that the values of third-order nonlinear optical susceptibility (χ⟨3⟩) of CoPc-LC and CoPc-DNA-CTMA increase in comparison with the value of the third-order nonlinear optical susceptibilities of CoPc. We supposed that this is caused by increase of the charge-transfer effects and of the dipole moments of the molecule with the increase of the chain length.