Journal
ACS PHOTONICS
Volume 8, Issue 8, Pages 2450-2458Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.1c00687
Keywords
third-order susceptibility; nonlinear absorption; nonlinear refraction; Kerr; z-scan; damage threshold
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- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, EPSRC [EP/S031103/1, EP/T010568/1]
- EPSRC [EP/T010568/1, EP/S031103/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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This study demonstrates the potential of metal-free perovskite structures for third-order nonlinear optical processes, showing that the choice of cation affects the resulting third-order nonlinearity and highlights the material's high nonlinear figure of merit and laser damage threshold.
This paper establishes the potential of the recently introduced ABX(3) 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) m(2) W-1 and high laser damage threshold of 0.8 J cm(-2). Owing to its very wide band gap of similar to 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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