Plasmonics, which are based on the collective oscillation of electrons due to light excitation, involve strongly enhanced local electric fields and thus have potential applications in nonlinear optics, which requires extraordinary optical intensity. One of the most studied nonlinearities in plasmonics is nonlinear absorption, including saturation and reverse saturation behaviors. Although scatt...

Ultrathin BP QDs with a uniform size of ∼3.4 nm were prepared via small molecule-assisted liquid phase exfoliation and they exhibited superior broadband nonlinear saturable absorption promising for nonlinear optical applications. Laser photolysis measurement implied that the nonlinear response origin was related to the long-lived electron-hole pairs delocalized within the BP QDs.

High pressure-high temperature (HP-HT) nanodiamonds and detonation have unique optical properties are promising materials for various applications in photonics. In this work, the first time, comparative studies of nonlinear aqueous suspensions HP-HT under femtosecond laser excitation performed. Using z-scan technique, it was found that same pulse parameters exhibited limiting due to two-photon ...

This paper studies theoretically the use of a Q-switch laser with side light injection as spiking all-optical neuron for photonic neural networks (PSNN). Ordinary differential equations multi-section are presented, including terms gain quenching and saturable absorption. The behaviour mimics that ultrafast pico-second scale response low power control signals.

We report our results on nonlinear optical properties of 2(3), 9(10), 16(17), 23(24) tetra tert-butyl phthalocyanine and 2(3), 9(10), 16(17), 23(24) tetra tert-butyl Zinc phthalocyanine studied using Z-scan technique with 800 nm femtosecond and 532 nm nanosecond pulses. Nonlinear absorption behavior in both femtosecond and nanosecond domains was studied in detail. We observed three-photon absor...

We have measured the temporal pulse shape of a mid-infrared free electron laser using a 60 fs Ti:sapphire pulse as an optical gate. By employing a differential technique to simultaneously measure the instantaneous infrared intensity and its time derivative, we have reconstructed the pulse shape with sub-ps resolution, despite jitter the order of 50 ps between the two lasers. The experiment has ...

In the present work, The third order optical nonlinearity and optical limiting properties of Magnesium phthalocyanine (MgPc) thin film have been investigated. Third order optical nonlinearity of MgPc thin film has been studied by z–scan method using a cw He-Ne laser at ~633nm wavelength as an exciting source. The normalized transmission for both open and closed aperture z scan are measured and ...

We study a single-wall carbon nanotube (SWNT) Polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) composite as a saturable absorber (SA) for pulse generation in Yb-doped fiber lasers. The saturable absorption and optical limiting (OL) characteristics of the SWNT device are investigated. By combing these two nonlinear effects, we find out for the first time, to the best of our knowledge, that mode-locking can be obtained i...

We report experimental results of using an f/5 , cascaded-focus optical geometry for a high-dynamic-range optical limiter. The device consists of a 2-cm-thick CS(2) cell at the first focus and a reverse saturable-absorber dye in a thin cell (0.1 mm) at the second focus. The strong self-focusing in the CS(2) that is due to the ac Kerr effect and electrostriction keeps the energy at the second ce...