Fluorescence, spectroscopic and NLO properties of green tea extract in deoxyribonucleic acid

Abstract Natural, purely biological deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)–green tea extract (GTE) complexes at different concentrations were prepared and characterized for their spectroscopic, fluorescent, linear and nonlinear optical properties. The complexes can be processed into good optical quality thin films by solution casting. They fluoresce when excited in UV absorption band, with a significantly larger quantum yield for the DNA–GTE complex than for a pure GTE solution. The thin film refractive indices were determined by Fabry–Perot (FP) interference patterns. The third-order nonlinear optical (NLO) properties of thin films were determined by the optical third-harmonic generation technique at 1064.2 nm fundamental wavelength. The phase of THG susceptibility was determined from the concentration variation of THG susceptibility. It reveals presence of a two-photon resonance with a band lying in the optical gap.