Saturation of absorption in noble metal doped nanocomposite glass film excited by evanescent light field
Saturation of absorption in noble metal doped nanocomposite glass film excited by evanescent light field
A leaky-waveguide configuration is proposed for saturable absorbers. Evanescent field interaction between the leaky-mode and the absorber layer reduces material degradation at high power levels while providing control over the interaction length and thus the modulation strength and nonsaturable losses simply by tuning the coupling angle around the resonance of the leaky-mode. This concept was applied to a sol-gel silicon-dioxide glass film doped with gold nanoparticles. Saturation of the surface plasmon resonance absorption was demonstrated with modulation depths of up to 34% achieved.
doping, glass, gold, nanocomposites, optical saturable absorption, sol-gel processing, surface plasmon resonance
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Corbari, Costantino
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Beresna, Martynas
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Kazansky, Peter G.
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2010
Corbari, Costantino
273904e8-5f90-4110-bc17-3d3f2c27d461
Beresna, Martynas
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Kazansky, Peter G.
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Corbari, Costantino, Beresna, Martynas and Kazansky, Peter G.
(2010)
Saturation of absorption in noble metal doped nanocomposite glass film excited by evanescent light field.
Applied Physics Letters, 97 (26), .
(doi:10.1063/1.3529950).
Abstract
A leaky-waveguide configuration is proposed for saturable absorbers. Evanescent field interaction between the leaky-mode and the absorber layer reduces material degradation at high power levels while providing control over the interaction length and thus the modulation strength and nonsaturable losses simply by tuning the coupling angle around the resonance of the leaky-mode. This concept was applied to a sol-gel silicon-dioxide glass film doped with gold nanoparticles. Saturation of the surface plasmon resonance absorption was demonstrated with modulation depths of up to 34% achieved.
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Published date: 2010
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doping, glass, gold, nanocomposites, optical saturable absorption, sol-gel processing, surface plasmon resonance
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/174617
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