Ultra-broadband Nonlinear Saturable Absorption for Two-dimensional Bi2TexSe3-x Nanosheets

Yingwei Wang; Sheng Liu; Jian Yuan; Peng Wang; Jiazhang Chen; Jianbo Li; Si Xiao; Qiaoliang Bao; Yongli Gao; Jun He

doi:10.1038/srep33070

Ultra-broadband Nonlinear Saturable Absorption for Two-dimensional Bi2TexSe3-x Nanosheets

Sci Rep. 2016 Sep 9:6:33070. doi: 10.1038/srep33070.

Authors

Yingwei Wang¹, Sheng Liu¹, Jian Yuan², Peng Wang¹, Jiazhang Chen¹, Jianbo Li³, Si Xiao¹, Qiaoliang Bao², Yongli Gao^{1

4}, Jun He¹

Affiliations

¹ School of Physics and Electronics, Hunan Key Laboratory for Super-micro structure and Ultrafast Process, Central South University, 932 South Lushan Road, Changsha, Hunan 410083, P. R. China.
² Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials and Devices, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, P. R. China.
³ Institute of Mathematics and Physics, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha 410004, China.
⁴ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, NewYork 14627, United States.

Abstract

We report the ultra-broadband nonlinear optical (NLO) response of Bi2TexSe3-x nanosheets produced by a facile solvothermal method. Our result show that the extracted basic optical nonlinearity parameters of Bi2TexSe3-x nanosheets, αNL, Imχ((3)), and FOM reach ~10(4) cm/GW, ~10(-8) esu and ~10(-13) esu cm, respectively, which are several orders of magnitude larger than those of bulk dielectrics. We further observed the excitation intensity dependence of the NLO absorption coefficient and the NLO response sensitivity. The mechanisms of those phenomena were proposed based on physical model. The wavelength dependence of the NLO response of Bi2TexSe3-x nanosheets was investigated, and we determined that the Bi2TexSe3-x nanosheets possess an ultra-broadband nonlinear saturable absorption property covering a range from the visible to the near-infrared band, with the NLO absorption insensitive to the excitation wavelength. This work provide fundamental and systematic insight into the NLO response of Bi2TexSe3-x nanosheets and support their application in photonic devices in the future.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't