Investigation of Nonlinear Optical Processes in Mercury Sulfide Quantum Dots

Vyacheslav V Kim; Ivan A Shuklov; Alaa A Mardini; Arturs Bundulis; Andrey I Zvyagin; Rawda Kholany; Anna A Lizunova; Jurgis Grube; Anatolijs Sarakovskis; Oleg V Ovchinnikov; Rashid A Ganeev

doi:10.3390/nano12081264

Investigation of Nonlinear Optical Processes in Mercury Sulfide Quantum Dots

Nanomaterials (Basel). 2022 Apr 8;12(8):1264. doi: 10.3390/nano12081264.

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Affiliations

¹ Laboratory of Nonlinear Optics, University of Latvia, Jelgavas 3, LV-1004 Riga, Latvia.
² Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, National Research University, 141701 Dolgoprudny, Russia.
³ Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Latvia, Kengaraga 8, LV-1063 Riga, Latvia.
⁴ Department of Physics, Voronezh State University, 394006 Voronezh, Russia.
⁵ Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers, National Research University, Kori Niyozov Street 39, Tashkent 100000, Uzbekistan.

Abstract

The authors report the third-harmonic generation, nonlinear refraction, and nonlinear absorption in HgS quantum dot (QD) suspensions and films using the nanosecond and femtosecond pulses. High conversion efficiency (7 × 10^-4) towards the third harmonic (TH) of the 900-1700 nm, 150 fs laser in the thin (70 nm) films containing HgS QDs deposited on the glass substrates is obtained. The authors analyze spectral dependencies of the TH, nonlinear refractive indices, and nonlinear absorption coefficients of QDs in the 500-1700 nm range and discuss the relation between the TH process and the low-order nonlinear optical properties of these quantum dots.

Keywords: mercury sulfide; nonlinear absorption; nonlinear refraction; quantum dots; third-harmonic generation.

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