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We investigate the two-photon absorption (TPA) and nonlinear refraction of a micrometer thick 3,4,9,10-perylentetracarboxyl-dianhydride (PTCDA) film using z-scans with tightly focused 100 fs laser pulses. The PTCDA film was grown by organic molecular beam deposition on a Pyrex substrate. To study the influence of sample heating, the pulse repetition rate was varied between 4 MHz and 50 kHz with an acousto-optic pulse selector. We find that thermal effects diminish for pulse repetition times longer than 5 and 0.75 µs when using a 10x or 20x microscope lens, respectively, resulting in a TPA coefficient of 6 cm/GW and a nonlinear refractive index of 1.2 x 10⁻¹³ cm²/W at a wavelength of 820 nm.

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We investigate the mode properties of planar dielectric aluminum-quinoline (Alq3) multilayer waveguides comprising one single or three equally spaced embedded nanometer-thin (∼10 nm thick) Alq3-Mg0.9:Ag0.1 composite metal-island layers. The plasmonic waveguides were fabricated by organic molecular beam deposition. Transverse magnetic (TM) and transverse electric (TE) modes were selectively excited using the m-line method. The symmetric plasmonic TM0 mode was launched in all waveguides and—in addition—two higher order plasmonic TM1 and TM2 modes were generated in waveguides comprising three metal layers. Other TM modes have hybrid dielectric-plasmonic characters, showing an increased effective refractive index when one electric field antinode is close to a metallic layer. TM modes which have all their antinode(s) in the dielectric layers propagate essentially like dielectric modes. TE modes with antinode(s) at the position of the metal layer(s) are strongly damped while the losses are low for TE modes comprising a node at the position of the composite metal film(s). The possibility to control the effective refractive index and the losses for individual hybrid plasmonic-dielectric TM and dielectric TE modes opens new design opportunities for mode selective waveguides and TM-TE mode couplers.