Linear and nonlinear optical absorption in copper nanocluster-glass composites

Linear and nonlinear optical properties of glasses doped with Bi nanoparticles

“…Glasses containing metal nanoparticles exhibit an ultrafast electron response within a few of picoseconds, and also have large third-order optical nonlinearities because of the large local-field enhancement factor and the strong resonant absorption of the surface plasmon [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]. Thus, these materials have been intensively studied since the middle eighties of the last century, owing to their applications in ultrafast all-optical switching, ultrafast imaging, optical telecommunication, signal processing, and so forth [7][8][9][10][11][12].…”

Enhanced nonlinear optical responses in metal–glass nanocomposites

“…As it is clear from the above equation, ARINS cannot give unique values of the nonlinear parameters (h 2 and b) as far as signs of these parameters are concerned. Z-Scan provides us exactly the signs of the parameters [18,19]. Combining the output of both the experiments we have calculated the values of h 2 and b.…”

Optical Nonlinearities of Colloidal Metal Quantum Dot - Glass Composites for Nanophotonics

“…The nonlinear optical properties of the copper colloids were first measured using the Z-scan technique and () 3 χ values obtained were found to be of the order of 10 -11 −10 -12 esu. Recently reported works includes synthesis of metal nanocluster composite glass by Cu ions implanted into silica with dose of 1 × 10 17 ions/cm [61,62]. Third-order nonlinear optical properties of the nanoclusters were measured at 1064 nm and 532 nm excitations using Z-scan technique.…”