Nonlinear optical properties of PbS quantum dots in boro-silicate glass

Linear and nonlinear optical properties of the PbSe quantum dots doped germano-silica glass optical fiber

“…Finally, speaking about applications, the semiconductor quantum dots doped optical glasses have already shown the response time in the range of few hundred ps, making them suitable candidate for switching devices [17]. Interesting thing is the tunability of devices made by using the QDs-doped fiber due to a control over their sizes.…”

Optical properties of novel PbS and PbSe quantum-dot-doped alumino-alkali-silicate glasses

“…This also leads to the spectral shift of the photoluminescence bands [19]. To the moment, several host materials were proposed for PbS QD synthesis, including solid glass matrices (phosphate [13], silicate [12], boro-silicate [20]), polymers [21,22], organic and water solutions [23,24], sol-gel thin films [25,26]. Thus, the number of potential applications for PbS QD-doped structures is expanding: they were used as saturable absorbers for passive mode-locking and Qswitching if near-IR lasers [8,[27][28][29], luminescent marks [30], fiber amplifiers [10], in solar cells and photovoltaics [9,31].…”

Luminescence of PbS quantum dots spread on the core surface of a silica microstructured optical fiber

“…They are usually grown within glass matrices or as colloidal solutions [1][2][3]. The quantum confinement effects, associated with the nanometric size, give rise to a number of important and interesting optical and electronic properties that have been exploited for photonic applications, including optical amplifiers, lasers, sensors and solar cells [4][5][6][7][8][9]. In the last few years, lasers and optical fiber amplifiers working in the 1.5 µm optical communication window were produced by putting together planar waveguides, fiber couplers or photonic crystals and either PbS or PbSe QDs [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17].…”