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APPLIED PHYSICS B-LASERS AND OPTICS
Volume 97, Issue 1, Pages 117-124Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00340-009-3635-4
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- Department of Information Technology ( D. I. T.), Government of India
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We report here the studies on third-order nonlinear optical properties of two novel polythiophene composite films investigated using the Z-scan technique. The measurements were carried out using a Q-switched, frequency doubled Nd:YAG laser producing 7 nanosecond laser pulses at 532 nm. Z-scan results reveal that the composite films exhibit self-defocusing nonlinearity. The real and imaginary parts of the third-order nonlinear optical susceptibility were of the order 10(-12) esu. The effective excited-state absorption cross section was found to be larger than the ground state absorption cross section, indicating that the operating nonlinear mechanism is reverse saturable absorption (RSA). The polythiophene composite films also exhibit good optical power limiting of the nanosecond laser pulses. The nonlinear optical parameters are found to increase on increasing the strength of the electron-donor group, indicating the dependence of chi ((3)) on the electron-donor/acceptor units of polythiophenes.
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