Calculation of the Nonlinear Optical Properties of Molecules

Abstract

A finite field method for the calculation of polarizabilities and hyperpolarizabilities is developed based on both an energy expansion and a dipole moment expansion. This procedure is implemented in the MOPAC semiempirical program. Values and components of the dipole moment (mu), polarizability (alpha), first hyperpolarizability (beta), and second hyperpolarizability (gamma) are calculated as an extension of the usual MOPAC run. Applications to benzene and substituted benzenes are shown as test cases utilizing both MNDO and AM1 Hamiltonians.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA221341

Entities

People

  • Henry A. Kurtz
  • James J. Stewart
  • Kenneth M. Dieter

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Air Force
  • Benzene
  • Chemistry
  • Computational Chemistry
  • Computational Chemistry Methods
  • Difference Frequency
  • Dipole Moments
  • Electric Fields
  • Equations
  • Errors
  • Frequency
  • Geometry
  • High Resolution
  • Molecules
  • Optical Properties
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Calculus or Mathematical Analysis
  • Quantum Chemistry