Cm. Lai et Hf. Meng, BIPOLARON-INDUCED 3RD-ORDER OPTICAL NONLINEARITY IN CONJUGATED CONDUCTING POLYMERS, Physical review. B, Condensed matter, 54(23), 1996, pp. 16365-16368
A mechanism, due to the presence of bipolarons, for large resonant chi
((3)) in doped cis-polyacetylene and other conjugated conducting polym
ers is presented. Under optical pumping, the electronic occupations of
the two intragap energy levels of the bipolarons will vary, resulting
in a shift in their energies, which in turn causes a dramatic change
in the absorption spectrum. Even for moderate doping concentrations of
bipolarons, chi((3)) is found to be as high as 10(-8) esu.