Lithuanian Journal of Physics article / Lietuvos fizikos žurnalo straipsnis

MEASUREMENT OF TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTION BY GOLD NANOPARTICLES OF DIFFERENT SIZES PHOTODEPOSITED ONTO THE CORE OF AN OPTICAL FIBRE
Jesús Manuel Cuvas-Limón^a, José Gabriel Ortega-Mendoza^b, Juan Pablo Padilla-Martínez^c, and Plácido Zaca-Morán^c
^aFacultad de Ciencias de la Electrónica, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, CP 72050, Puebla, México
^bDivisión de Posgrado, Universidad Politécnica de Tulancingo, CP 43629, Hidalgo, México
^cInstituto de Ciencias, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, CP 72050, Puebla, México
Email: zmoran_placido@icloud.com

Received 8 May 2020; revised 28 November 2020; accepted 1 December 2020

In this work, the study of two-photon absorption by gold nanoparticles of different diameters photodeposited onto the core of a single-mode optical fibre is presented. The photodeposition of nanoparticles with diameters of 10, 20, 50 and 100 nm was achieved using a continuous wave laser at a wavelength of 1550 nm and a power of 50 mW. Nonlinear optical characterization was carried out by using the P-scan technique of a high gain erbium doped fibre amplifier with pulses of 20 ns at a frequency of 10 kHz, that provides a maximum intensity of approximately 60 MW/cm². The results show that for gold nanoparticles greater than 20 nm photodeposited onto the fibre, in both cases, the nonlinear coefficient as well as the third-order susceptibility increase as the diameter of the nanoparticles increases, describing a typical behaviour of the two-photon absorption. The obtained results can be used for the design of filters and optical limiters in the communications area.

Keywords: nonlinearity, optical fibres, gold nanoparticles, photodeposition
PACS: 42.65.Yj, 42.81.-i, 81.07.-b

FOTODEPOZICIJOS BŪDU ANT OPTINIO ŠVIESOLAIDŽIO ŠERDIES NUSODINTŲ AUKSO DALELIŲ DVIFOTONĖS ABSORBCIJOS MATAVIMAI
Jesús Manuel Cuvas-Limón^a, José Gabriel Ortega-Mendoza^b, Juan Pablo Padilla-Martínez^c, Plácido Zaca-Morán^c

^aAutonominio Pueblos universiteto Elektronikos fakultetas, Puebla, Meksika
^bTulancingo politechnikos universitetas, Hidalgas, Meksika
^cAutonominio Pueblos universiteto Mokslo institutas, Puebla, Meksika

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