Non-Linear Optical Properties of Matter : From Molecules to Condensed Phases

Microscopic Theory of Nonlinear Optics.- Accurate Nonlinear Optical Properties for Small Molecules.- Determination of Vibrational Contributions to Linear and Nonlinear Optical Properties.- SOS Methods in Calculations of Electronic NLO Properties.- Kohn–Sham Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory with Applications to Linear and Nonlinear Properties.- Non-Linear Pulse Propagation in Many-Photon Active Isotropic Media.- Collective and Cooperative Phenomena in Molecular Functional Materials.- Multiconfigurational Self-Consistent Field-Molecular Mechanics Response Methods.- Solvatochromism and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Donor-acceptor ?-Conjugated Molecules.- Symmetry Based Approach to the Evaluation of Second Order NLO Properties of Carbon Nanotubes.- Atomistic Molecular Modeling of Electric Field Poling of Nonlinear Optical Polymers.- Nonlinear Optical Properties of Chiral Liquids.- Recent Progress in Molecular Design of Ionic Second-order Nonlinear Optical Materials.- Characterization Techniques of Nonlinear Optical Materials.- Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Response of Metal Nanoparticles.- From Dipolar to Octupolar Phthalocyanine Derivatives: The Example of Subphthalocyanines.- NLO Properties of Metal Alkynyl and Related Complexes.- Ruthenium Complexes as Versatile Chromophores with Large, Switchable Hyperpolarizabilities.- Linear and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Selected Rotaxanes and Catenanes.- Second Harmonic Generation from Gold and Silver Nanoparticles in Liquid Suspensions.