Preparation and third-order optical nonlinearity of gold nanoparticles incorporated mesoporous TiO2 thin films

  • Fangming Cui
  • , Zile Hua
  • , Qianjun He
  • , Jiangtian Li
  • , Limin Guo
  • , Xiangzhi Cui
  • , Peng Jiang
  • , Chenyang Wei
  • , Weimin Huang
  • , Wenbo Bu
  • , Jianlin Shi*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

A kind of Au nanoparticle (NP) containing 2D hexagonal mesoporous TiO 2 thin films (MTTFs) has been successfully synthesized through a deposition-precipitation method. The Au NPs show uniform size distribution and the An content within the MTTFs is measured to be 7.49 wt.%. The third-order nonlinear optical refractive index of the Au NPs contained MTTFs has been measured by the Z-scan technique at 1064 nm. The absolute value of nonlinear refractive index (n2) and third-order nonlinear susceptibility (χ(3)) were calculated to be 2.64 × 10-7 and 6.32 × 10-8 esu, respectively. The high nonlinearity of the composite thin films can be attributed to the intraband transition of electrons near the Fermi surface in well-dispersed Au NPs confined in mesoporous channels and the high linear refractive index of the nanocrystalline anatase framework.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)107-112
Number of pages6
JournalJournal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics
Volume26
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2009
Externally publishedYes

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