Wang Zhijia, Hou Yuqi, Huo Zepeng, Liu Qiang, Xu Weiqing, Zhao Jianzhang
State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, School of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, E-208 West Campus, 2 Ling-Gong Road, Dalian 116024, P. R. China.
State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, P. R. China.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2021 Sep 9;57(72):9044-9047. doi: 10.1039/d1cc03309c.
Two-photon absorption (TPA) has been widely used in confocal microscopy, photo-initiated three-dimensional (3D) polymerization, and 3D-micro/nanofabrication. These applications are based on the spatial confinement of the TPA excitation, due to the quadratic excitation power dependency of the excitation. However, an expensive and high-power femtosecond (fs) pulsed laser has to be used. Herein, we show a new technique as a promising alternative to the TPA to achieve spatially confined excitation, but no fs laser and TPA dyes are required. This new spatially confined excitation with a continuous wave laser is based on triplet-triplet-annihilation upconversion. The potential of the new technique was demonstrated by spatially confined photopolymerization.
双光子吸收(TPA)已广泛应用于共聚焦显微镜、光引发三维(3D)聚合和3D微纳加工。由于激发的二次激发功率依赖性,这些应用基于TPA激发的空间限制。然而,必须使用昂贵的高功率飞秒(fs)脉冲激光。在此,我们展示了一种新技术,作为TPA的一种有前景的替代方法,可实现空间限制激发,但无需飞秒激光和TPA染料。这种基于连续波激光的新型空间限制激发是基于三重态-三重态湮灭上转换。通过空间限制光聚合证明了该新技术的潜力。