富勒烯有机-无机杂化材料的非共珍三阶非线性光学特性

采用中心波长800 nm、脉宽30 fs的超短激光脉冲,通过飞秒光开关技术（Optical Kerr Shutter,OKS）对富勒烯有机-无机杂化材料的飞秒超快非线性特性进行了实验研究.获得270 fs的开关时间,所得的富勒烯有机-无机杂化材料的三阶非线性系数χ(3)约为4.5×10－14 esu,比C60分子的三阶非线性系数χ(3)高一个数量级.通过实验测定的光克尔信号强度与激发光和探测光偏振方向夹角的依赖关系表明：30 fs的超短激光脉冲激发富勒烯有机-无机杂化材料的克尔信号主要是源于光诱导双折射效应,而非用200 fs的超短激光脉冲时来自瞬态栅的自衍射效应.     

CS_2飞秒超快非线性特性的实验研究

采用中心波长800 nm、脉宽30 fs的超短激光脉冲,通过飞秒光开关技术对CS_2的飞秒超快非线性特性进行了实验研究.在探测光强与抽运光强比为1∶10时,得到了较理想的光克尔时间分辨曲线.通过实验测定的光克尔信号强度与激发光和探测光偏振方向夹角的依赖关系表明:30 fs的超短激光脉冲激发CS_2的克尔信号主要是源于光诱导双折射效应,而非用200 fs的超短激光脉冲时来自瞬态栅的自衍射效应.     

水溶性CdTe量子点的三阶光学非线性极化特性

利用超短脉冲Z扫描技术和光学Kerr效应研究了以巯基丙酸为稳定剂的CdTe量子点水溶液的三阶光学非线性极化特性. 在532nm,30ps和800nm,130fs脉冲激光激发下, 发现分别具有正负相反取值的三阶光学非线性折射率,自由载流子吸收和双光子吸收分别是这两种脉冲激光激发下三阶光学非线性吸收的起因. 测量得到CdTe量子点的三阶光学非线性极化率约为CS₂的32倍, 在520—700nm光谱区的CdTe量子点的光学响应时间小于400fs. 关键词： CdTe量子点(QDs) Z扫描 三阶光学非线性极化特性 双光子吸收     

聚芳香杂环甲烯的三阶非线性光学效应与时间分辨光克尔效应

合成了一系列聚芳香杂环甲烯,包括聚吡咯甲烯和聚噻吩甲烯.采用四波混频法研究材料的共振三阶非线性光学效应(λ＝532nm),其共振二阶超分子极化率γ三阶非线性光学系数分别达到10^-30esu和10^-8esu.选择具有良好溶解性、成膜性的聚吡咯对二甲氨基苯甲烯(PPDMAB),采用飞秒时间分辨光克尔效应方法研究材料的非共振三阶非线性光学效应(λ=790nm).实验表明,翠绿亚胺碱溶液的光克尔信号仅表现一超快响应的成分,归功于π电子云扭转产生的非共振激发.PPDMAB的非共振二阶超分子极化率γ三阶非线性光学系数分别达到γ=5.78×10^-32esu和χ⁽³⁾=1.26×10^-10esu.     

一组Dawson型多金属氧酸盐和相应的有机-无机杂多化合物的超快非线性光学响应

通过时间分辨率为115fs的超快光克尔方法测量了多金属氧酸盐K8[P2Mo4W13M(H2O)O61] (M=Mn, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn)和相应的有机-无机杂多化合物(C19H25N2)7K3[P2Mo4W13MO62]在830nm处的三阶非线性光学性质。多金属氧酸盐阴离子和相应的杂多化合物都表现出很大的三阶非线性,其中M=Cu的取代物的非线性系数要比其他小一个数量级。通过比较有机-无机杂多化合物和生成前者的反应物的值,发现杂多化合物中的电荷转移效应极大的增强了三阶非线性光学性能。     

飞秒激光在PPQ有机高聚物中的传输特性研究

有机高聚物是一种具有大非线性系数和较快非线性响应时间的非线性材料。本文通过对含有二阶，三阶色散效应和非线性响应时间改进的非线性薛定谔方程进行了数值模拟求解，分析了飞秒光脉冲在有机高聚物聚苯基喹恶啉中的传输特性。     

超快光脉冲照射GaAs晶体产生的干涉环

用飞秒脉冲激光照射砷化镓(gallium arsenide, GaAs)晶体,透射光出现了多级的干涉环.利用透射式Z-扫描光路,改变飞秒脉冲激光入射到GaAs晶体表面时的功率密度,观察到干涉环有规律地收缩(或扩张):功率密度越大,出现的干涉环越多,张角也越大.高强度飞秒脉冲激光的非线性效应局部地改变了GaAs晶体的折射率,从而导致光程差的出现,这是一种非线性效应(克尔透镜).超快光脉冲在GaAs晶体里产生的克尔透镜不能像理想的薄透镜那样把光束聚焦,而是让透镜光束形成了干涉环.通过分析干涉环的变化,可以得到GaAs晶体的非线性吸收系数和非线性折射率.     

纳米银颗粒掺杂铋酸盐玻璃的光谱与三阶非线性光学特性研究

采用新型的热化学还原法,制备了银纳米颗粒掺杂的铋酸盐复合玻璃材料。利用紫外-可见吸收光谱观察到了银纳米颗粒表面等离子谐振(SPR)吸收的峰值位移特性,用拉曼光谱表征了引入银纳米颗粒后玻璃的结构变化。借助飞秒激光脉冲激发下的Z扫描与光克尔闸技术,在近红外波段下研究了材料的三阶非线性光学特性。研究结果表明银纳米颗粒铋酸盐复合材料有着亚皮秒级的非线性响应时间,并且其非线性折射率γ在纳米颗粒的热电子效应以及局部场效应的影响下,较基质玻璃最高可以提升29倍。     

超短激光脉冲二倍频理论分析

采用快速傅里叶变换（FFT）算法和Rung-Kutta法对KDP晶体中超短激光脉冲二倍频过程作了研究。详细讨论了群速度失配、群速度色散和三阶非线性相位调制效应对倍频光脉冲波形、光谱及转换效率的影响。研究结果表明：在超短激光脉冲二倍频中，三阶非线性相位调制效应可使二倍频光脉冲形状发生畸变，光谱明显展宽且转换效率降低；当入射基频光功率密度大于100GW/cm2时，三阶非线性效应是影响倍频过程的主要因素。     

GaAs在光通讯波段的超快非线性光学研究

采用Z-扫描和泵浦-探测技术,在光通讯波段对砷化镓(GaAs)单晶进行了非线性动力学以及非线性光学的实验研究.飞秒泵浦-探测实验结果表明,三阶非线性光学效应源于砷化镓单晶对飞秒激光的瞬态双光子吸收,而五阶非线性光学效应源于砷化镓单晶双光子吸收诱导的自由载流子吸收效应.通过Z扫描实验,得到了关于GaAs单晶所有的非线性光学参数,包括双光子吸收系数、三阶非线性折射系数、双光子吸收诱导的自由载流子吸收截面以及双光子吸收诱导的自由载流子折射截面.结果表明,砷化镓单晶在制造光限幅器件和光电探测器方面具有良好的发展前景.     

Femtosecond laser-induced birefringence and transient grating in lead(II) phthalocyanine-doped hybrid silica gel glasses

Ultrafast nonlinear optical properties of lead(II) phthalocyanine (PbPc)-doped silica gel glasses were investigated using a femtosecond optical Kerr shutter (OKS) setup at wavelength of 800 nm. The nonlinear response time of the PbPc-doped silica gel glasses was measured to be less than 90 fs. Measurements for the dependence of Kerr signals on the polarization angle between pump and probe beams showed that the Kerr signals induced by 30-fs pulses arose mainly from photoinduced birefringence effect and not from a laser-induced transient grating as observed when using a 200-fs pulse laser.     

Ultrafast nonlinear optical response of Ag:BaTiO3 composite films at the near-ultraviolet wavelengths

The ultrafast nonlinear optical response of Ag:BaTiO3 composite films synthesized by pulse laser deposition (PLD) is studied at the near-ultraviolet (400 nm) wavelength. The pulse duration of the laser used in the measurement is 200 fs. The real and imaginary parts of the third-order nonlinear susceptibility x(3) of the composite materials are measured. The composite films indicate self-focusing effect and nonlinear saturation, the values of Rex(3) and Imx(3) are measured to be 3.42 × 10-10 and -1.37 × 10-10 esu respectively, which are much lower than those reported before. It is mainly because that the duration of the laser used in the measurements is too short to induce the hot electron excitation and the thermal effect. The ultrafast nonlinear saturated absorption response of the Ag:BaTiO3 composite films may have potential applications for femtosecond laser mode locking.     

Origin of third-order optical nonlinearity in Au:SiO(2) composite films on femtosecond and picosecond time scales

Three sorts of probe laser, which have pulse durations of 200 fs, 35 ps, and 70 ps, were employed in the measurement of the third-order nonlinear optical susceptibility x((3)) in Au:SiO(2) composite films in a degenerate four-wave mixing scheme. We found that the composite films at their absorption peak (~550 nm) had a maximum x((3)) , which depends strongly on the pulse width of the probe laser. The value of x((3)) measured with a 70-ps laser was ~30 times larger than that measured with a 200-fs laser. The time-resolved measurements revealed that the optical nonlinearity on the femtosecond time scale is attributable mainly to contributions from the interband electric-dipole transition (especially at low concentrations) and partly to those from hot electrons rather than being dominated by hot-electron excitation in the picosecond regime.     

Ultrafast nonlinear optical properties of Bi2O3-B2O3-SiO2 oxide glass

The ultrafast nonlinear optical properties of Bi₂O₃-B₂O₃-SiO₂ oxide glass were investigated using a femtosecond optical Kerr shutter (OKS) at wavelength of 800 nm. The nonlinear response time of this Bi₂O₃-doped glass was measured to be <90 fs. The nonlinear refractive-index n₂ was estimated to be 1.6 × 10⁻¹⁴ cm²/W. Measurements for the dependence of Kerr signals on the polarization angle between the pump and probe beams showed that the Kerr signals induced by 30-fs pulse laser arose mainly from the photoinduced birefringence effect.     

Experimental study on the chirped structure of the white-light continuum generation by femtosecond laser spectroscopy

The chirped structure of the white-light continuum generation (WLCG) pulse produced by focusing 800nm laser pulse with a pulse duration of 150fs (FWHM: full-width-at-half-maximum) onto a 2.4 mm thick sapphire plate was investigated by the optical Kerr gate technique with normal hexane as the optical Kerr gate medium. The observed WLCG was positively chirped, the measured anti-Stokes spectrum of WLCG ranges from 449 to 580nm with a temporal span of 2.56ps. When using metal reflecting mirrors to eliminate the group velocity dispersion (GVD) effect, we found that a span of 1.3ps still remained, indicating that the chirped pulse cannot be accounted for simply by GVD of the pulse propagation in the dispersive media. Our results suggest that the light-induced refractive index change due to the third-order nonlinear optical effect leads to an additional positive group velocity dispersion, which contributes to an important portion of the observed temporal broadening of the chirped WLCG. In addition to using reflective optical elements instead of dispersive optical elements, an effective way of reducing the chirp is to minimize the optical path length of the WLCG medium.     

LARGE AND EXTREMELY FAST THIRD-ORDER NON-LINEARITY OF Ag NANOPARTICLES EMBEDDED INTO A CsxO SEMICONDUCTOR MATRIX

The third-order optical nonlinearity of Ag-O-Cs thin films, where Ag nanoparticles are embedded into a Cs_xO semiconductor matrix, was measured by the femtosecond optical Kerr technique. The third-order nonlinear optical susceptibility, χ⁽³⁾, of the thin films was estimated to be 1.1×10^-9 esu at the incident wavelength of 820 nm. The response time, i.e. the full width at half-maximum of the Kerr signal, is as fast as 114 fs only. The intrinsic third-order optical nonlinearity can be attributed to the intraband transition of electrons from the occupied state near the Fermi level to the unoccupied state. It is suggested that such a nonlinearity is further enhanced by the local field effect that is present in the metallic nanoparticles composite thin films.     

Ultra fast third-order non-linear response of amino-triazole donor-acceptor derivatives by optical Kerr effect

We report the study of the temporal dependence of the non-linear optical response of novel organic materials in solution. The experimental results of the optical Kerr gate using 70 fs pulses show a quasi-instantaneous response for three derivatives of an amino-triazole donor-acceptor system. The non-linearity of the compounds is identified as arising from the electronic contribution to the third-order non-linear susceptibility. The non-linear parameters of each sample were obtained using the optical Kerr response of CS₂ as reference.