Journal
OPTICAL MATERIALS
Volume 79, Issue -, Pages 397-402Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.optmat.2018.02.024
Keywords
z-scan; Nd3+; Nanoparticles; Nonlinear optics
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- CAPES
- FAPEMIG
- National Institute of Photonics (INCT Project/CNPq)
- CAPES/COFECUB
- CNPq
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The research on Nd3+ doped new solid-state laser hosts with specific thermo-mechanical and optical properties is very active. Nd3+ doped tellurite glasses are suitable for these applications. They have high linear and nonlinear refraction index, wide transmittance range. The TeO2-ZnO (TZO) glass considered in the present work combines all those features and the nonlinear optical properties can be used for the development of Kerr-lens mode-locked sub picosecond lasers. Recently the laser performance of Nd3+ doped TZO glass and was reported and laser slope efficiency of 21% was observed. We investigate how the intensity variation and the silver nanoparticles codoping affects the nonlinear optical properties of Nd3+ doped TZO glasses. Intensity dependent nonlinear refraction indices coefficients at 750, 800 and 850 nm were observed. The nonlinear optical features were obtained through ultrafast single beam z-scan technique with excitations at 750, 800 and 850 nm and are up to two orders of magnitude higher than those reported in the literature. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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