Jia, L.; Wu, J.; Yang, T.; Jia, B.; Moss, D.J. Large Negative Self-Defocusing Kerr Nonlinearity in 2D PdSe2 Dichalcogenide Films Measured by Z-Scan. Preprints2020, 2020050009
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Jia, L., Wu, J., Yang, T., Jia, B., & Moss, D.J. (2020). Large Negative Self-Defocusing Kerr Nonlinearity in 2D PdSe<sub>2</sub> Dichalcogenide Films Measured by Z-Scan. Preprints. https://doi.org/
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Jia, L., Baohua Jia and David J. Moss. 2020 "Large Negative Self-Defocusing Kerr Nonlinearity in 2D PdSe<sub>2</sub> Dichalcogenide Films Measured by Z-Scan" Preprints. https://doi.org/
Abstract
We report a large third-order nonlinear optical response of palladium diselenide (PdSe2) films – a two-dimensional (2D) noble metal dichalcogenide material. Both open-aperture (OA) and closed-aperture (CA) Z-scan measurements are performed with a femtosecond pulsed laser at 800 nm to investigate the nonlinear absorption and nonlinear refraction, respectively. In the OA experiment, we observe optical limiting behaviour originating from large two photo absorption (TPA) in the PdSe2 film of β = 3.26 ×10-8 m/W. In the CA experiment, we measure a peak-valley response corresponding to a large and negative Kerr nonlinearity of n2 = -1.33×10-15 m2/W – two orders of magnitude larger than bulk silicon. We also characterize the variation of n2 as a function of laser intensity, observing that n2 decreases in magnitude with incident laser intensity, becoming saturated at n2 = -9.96×10-16 m2/W at high intensities. These results verify the large third-order nonlinear optical response of 2D PdSe2 as well as its strong potential for high performance nonlinear photonic devices.
Keywords
nonlinear optics
Subject
Physical Sciences, Optics and Photonics
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