High-order nonlinearities of aqueous colloids containing silver nanoparticles

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2948-2956

  Falcao Filho E L ^a   de Araújo, Cid B ^a   Rodrigues, Jr ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO VALE DO SÃO FRANCISCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; LASER OPTICS; NANOPARTICLES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; VOLUME FRACTION;

AQUEOUS COLLOIDS; HIGH-ORDER NONLINEARITIES; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; Z-SCAN TECHNIQUE;

SILVER;

EID: 39549086555     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.24.002948     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. See, for example, M. Yamane, and Y. Asahara, Glasses for Photonics (Cambridge U. Press, 2000).
2. E. L. Falcão-Filho, C. A. C. Bosco, G. S. Maciel, L. H. Acioli, C. B. de Araújo, A. A. Lipovskii, and D. K. Tagantsev, "Third-order optical nonlinearity of a transparent; glass ceramic containing sodium niobate nanocrystals," Phys. Rev. B 69, 134204 (2004).
3. K. L. Kelly, E. Coronado, L. L. Zhao, and G. C. Schatz, "The optical properties of metal nanoparticles: the influence of size, shape, and dielectric environment," J. Phys. Chem. B 107, 668-677 (2003).
4. H. Kuwata, H. Tamaru, K. Esumi, and K. Miyano, "Resonant light scattering from metal nanoparticles: practical analysis beyond Rayleigh approximation," Appl. Phys. Lett. 83, 4625-4627 (2003).
5. J. Bosbach, C. Hendrich, F. Stietz, T. Vartanyan, and F. Träger, "Ultrafast dephasing of surface plasmon excitation in silver nanoparticles: influence of particle size, shape, and chemical surrounding," Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 257404 (2002).
6. W. Wenseleers, F. Stellacci, T. M. Friedrichsen, T. Mangel, C. A. Bauer, S. J. K. Pond, S. R. Marder, and J. W. Perry, "Five orders-of-magnitude enhancement of two-photon absorption for dyes on silver nanoparticle fractal clusters, J. Phys. Chem. B 106, 6853-6863 (2002).
7. S. I. Bozhevolnyi, J. Beermann, and V. Coello, "Direct observation of localized second-harmonic enhancement in random metal nanostructures," Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 197403 (2003).
8. M. H. G. Miranda, E. L. Falcão-Filho, J. J. Rodrigues, Jr., C. B. de Araújo, and L. H. Acioli, "Ultrafast light-induced dichroism in silver nanoparticles," Phys. Rev. B 70, 161401(R) (2004).
9. V. P. Drachev, E. N. Khaliullin, W. Kim, F. Alzoubi, S. G. Rautian, V. P. Safonov, R. L. Armstrong, and V. M. Shalaev, "Quantum size effect in two-photon excited luminescence from silver nanoparticles," Phys. Rev. B 69, 035318 (2004).
10. C. Voisin, D. Chistofilos, N. Del Fatti, F. Valée, B. Prével, E. Cottancin, J. Lermé, M. Pellarin, and M. Broyer, "Size-dependent electran-electron interactions in metal nanoparticles," Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2200-2203 (2000).
11. S. Link and M. A. El-Sayed, "Spectral properties and relaxation dynamics of surface plasmon electronic oscillations in gold and silver nanodots and nanorods," J. Phys. Chem. 103, 8410-8426 (1999).
12. V. P. Drachev, W. D. Bragg, V. A. Podolskiy, V. P. Safanov, W. T. Kim, Z. C. Ying, R. L. Armstrong, and V. M. Shalaev, "Large local optical activity in fractal aggregates of nanoparticles," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 18, 1896-1903 (2001).
13. J. P. Kottmann and O. J. F. Martin, "Retardation-induced plasmon resonances in coupled nanoparticles," Opt. Lett. 26, 1096-1098 (2001).
14. E. L. Falcão-Filho, C. B. de Araújo, A. Galembeck, M. M. Oliveira, and A. J. G. Zarbin, "Nonlinear susceptibility of colloids consisting of silver nanoparticles in carbon disulfide," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 22, 2444-2449 (2005).
15. I. Antonov, F. Bass, Yu Kaganovskii, M. Rosenbluh, and A. A. Lipovskii, "Fabrication of microlenses in Ag-doped glasses by a focused continuous wave laser beam," J. Appl. Phys. 93, 2343-2348 (2003).
16. J. Qiu, X. Jiang, C. Zhu, H. Inouye, J. Si, and K. Hirao, "Optical properties of structurally modified glasses doped with gold ions," Opt. Lett. 29, 370-372 (2004).
17. D. Ricard, Ph. Roussignol, and C. Flytzanis "Surface-mediated enhancement of optical phase conjugation in metal colloids," Opt. Lett. 10, 511-513 (1985).
18. F. Hache, D. Ricard, and C. Flytzanis, "Optical nonlinearities of small metal particles: surface-mediated resonance and quantum size effects," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 3, 1647-1655 (1986).
19. G. S. Agarwal and S. Dutta Gupta, "T-matrix approach to the nonlinear susceptibilities of heterogeneous media," Phys. Rev. A 38, 5678-5687 (1988).
20. N. C. Kothari, "Effective-medium theory of a nonlinear composite medium using the T-matrix approach: exact results for spherical grains," Phys. Rev. A 41, 4486-4492 (1990).
21. M. I. Stockman, K. B. Kurlayev, and T. F. George, "Linear and nonlinear optical susceptibilities of Maxwell-Garnett composites: dipolar spectral theory," Phys. Rev. B 60, 17071-17083 (1999).
22. P. M. Hui, "Higher order nonlinear response in dilute random composites," J. Appl. Phys. 73, 4072-4073 (1993).
23. X. Liu and Z. Li, "High order nonlinear susceptibilities of composite medium," Solid State Commun. 96, 981-985 (1995).
24. M. Sheik-Bahae, A. A. Said, T. H. Wei, D. J. Hagan, and E. W. Van Stryland, "Sensitive measurements of optical nonlinearities using a single beam," IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 26, 760-769 (1990).
25. P. C. Lee and D. Meisel, "Adsorption and surface-enhanced Raman of dyes on silver and gold sols," J. Phys. Chem. 86, 3391-3395 (1982).
26. See, for instance, Z. Peng, T. Walther, and K. Kleinermanns, "Photofragmentation of phase-transferred gold nanoparticles by intense pulsed laser light," J. Phys. Chem. B 109, 15735-15740 (2005), and references therein.
27. L. H. Acioli, M. H. G. Miranda, E. L. Falcão-Filho, J. J. Rodrigues, Jr., and C. B. de Araújo, "Time-resolved spectroscopy of metal nanoellipsoid," Proc. SPIE 6118, 61180S (2006).
28. H. Ma, A. S. L. Gomes, and C. B. de Araújo, "Measurements of nondegenerate optical nonlinearity using a two-color single beam method," Appl. Phys. Lett. 59, 2666-2668 (1991).
29. P. B. Johnson and R. W. Christy, "Optical constants of noble metals," Phys. Rev. B 6, 4370-4379 (1972).
30. A. A. Said, M. Sheik-Bahae, D. J. Hagan, T. H. Wei, J. Wang, J. Young, and E. W. Van Stryland, "Determination of bound-electronic and free-carrier nonlinearities in ZnSe, GaAs, CdTe, and ZnTe," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 9, 405-414 (1992).
31. B. L. Lawrence, M. Cha, W. E. Torruellas, G. E. Stegeman, S. Etemad, G. Baker, and F. Kajzar, "Measurement of the complex nonlinear refractive index of single crystal p-toluene sulfonate at 1064nm," Appl. Phys. Lett. 64, 2773-2775 (1994).
32. Y. Hamanaka, A. Nakamura, N. Hayashi, and S. Omi, "Dispersion curves of complex third-order optical susceptibilities around the surface plasmon resonance in Ag nanocrystal-glass composites," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 20, 1227-1232 (2003).