Wide-band-gap metal-free perovskite for third-order nonlinear optics

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This paper establishes the potential of the recently introduced ABX3 metal-free perovskite structures for third-order nonlinear optical processes. The base unit in this family of materials is an ammonium halide octahedra, and it incorporates a large aromatic cation spacer forming the classic perovskite structure. This work shows that the choice of cation is key to the resulting third-order nonlinearity, where the incorporation of "MDABCO"into the structure, a very polar cation, results in a third-order nonlinear refractive index on the order of 10-17 m2 W-1 and high laser damage threshold of 0.8 J cm-2. Owing to its very wide band gap of ∼5.12 eV, this material exhibits a high nonlinear figure of merit across the visible and near-infrared transmission windows. These results show that the metal-free family of perovskite materials is an excellent candidate for nonlinear optics in the important visible and near-infrared wavelength regimes.

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