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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
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
0003-6951
2611011-2611013
Corbari, Costantino
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Beresna, Martynas
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Kazansky, Peter G.
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Corbari, Costantino
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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), 2611011-2611013. (doi:10.1063/1.3529950).

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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
Keywords: doping, glass, gold, nanocomposites, optical saturable absorption, sol-gel processing, surface plasmon resonance

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Local EPrints ID: 174617
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/174617
ISSN: 0003-6951
PURE UUID: 6b0fecfc-d6df-4dba-ade5-96035930fa64

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Date deposited: 15 Feb 2011 10:31
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 02:34

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Author: Costantino Corbari
Author: Martynas Beresna
Author: Peter G. Kazansky

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