V. V. Vanyukov

Size effect on the optical limiting in suspensions of detonation nanodiamond clusters

We report on the optical limiting (OL) in stable aqueous suspensions of detonation nanodiamond (ND) clusters with average size of 50, 110, and 320 nm. The nanosecond Z-scan measurements at wavelength of 532 nm revealed that the larger the cluster size, the better the OL performance and the higher the ray stability of the ND suspension. Our analysis showed that the nonlinear scattering and the nonlinear absorption are the dominant mechanisms of OL in aqueous ND suspensions.

Saturable absorption in detonation nanodiamond dispersions

Abstract. We report on a saturable absorption in aqueous dispersions of nanodiamonds with femtosecond laser pulse excitation at a wavelength of 795 nm. The open aperture Z-scan experiments reveal that in a wide range of nanodiamond particle sizes and concentrations, a light-induced increase of transmittance occurs. The transmittance increase originates from the saturation of light absorption and is associated with a light absorption at 1.5 eV by graphite and dimer chains (Pandey dimer chains). The obtained key nonlinear parameters of nanodiamond dispersions are compared with those of graphene and carbon nanotubes, which are widely used for the mode-locking.

Saturable absorption in aqueous suspensions of detonation nanodiamonds under irradiation with femtosecond laser pulses

The phenomenon of saturable absorption has been observed in aqueous suspensions of detonation nanodiamonds (DNDs) with 34, 50, and 110 nm sized clusters of nanoparticles under irradiation with 795-nm laser pulses of 120-fs duration. The saturable absorption intensity has been studied as a function of the DND concentration in suspension. At a concentration of 2 wt % of DNDs with 50-nm average cluster size, the saturable absorption intensity amounts to 950 GW/cm2.

Optical limiting in the near-IR range in nanodiamonds dispersed in D2O

We report for the first time, to the best of our knowlegde, on the optical limiting (OL) in stable suspensions of detonation nanodiamonds dispersed in heavy water at optical communication wavelenghts. The nanosecond Z-scan experiments at a wavelength range of 1400–1675 nm revealed that the OL performance decreases with increasing the wavelength.

The remarkable transformation of nanoripples in glass-metal nanocomposite

We report the linear-to-circular transformation of high spatial frequency (HSF) ripples formed on the surface of a glass with embedded silver nanoparticles under irradiation with 120 fs long pulses at the wavelength of 800 nm. In the experiments, at the ablation threshold of 1.28 J/cm2, the HSF ripples with the period of ∼300 nm were oriented along the polarization of the laser beam. However, we found that the nanoripples pattern is gradually transforming from linear to an untypical circular one when the pulse energy increases. The ripples take nearly perfect circular shape at the pulse energy of ∼8.0 μJ, which corresponds to the fluence of 1.5 J/cm2.

Circular photocurrent in Ag/Pd resistive films upon excitation by femtosecond laser pulses

This paper presents the results of the experimental investigation of the generation of nanosecond photocurrent pulses in silver–palladium (Ag/Pd) resistive films under excitation by laser pulses with a duration of 120 fs at a wavelength of 795 nm. The photocurrent was detected in the direction perpendicular to the plane of incidence of the laser beam on the film. The 20-μm-thick films under investigation were a porous polycrystalline material consisting predominantly of nanocrystallites of the palladium oxide PdO and the Ag–Pd solid solution. The direction of the photocurrent observed in the films depends on the sign of the circular polarization of the incident radiation. It was found that the observed photocurrent depends on the angle of incidence in accordance with the odd law and consists of the circular and linear contributions, which are dependent on and independent of the sign of the circular polarization, respectively. It was shown that the circular photocurrent is significantly higher than the linear photocurrent. It was established that, for both the circular and linear polarizations, the photocurrent is directly proportional to the power of the excitation radiation. For the linearly polarized laser radiation, the photocurrent depends on the polarization angle in accordance with the odd law. The regularities revealed are consistent with the mechanism of the generation of transverse photocurrent with the photon drag effect.

Near-IR nonlinear optical filter for optical communication window.

We report on a high performance nonlinear optical filter for the telecommunication window that employs detonation nanodiamonds (NDs). The nanosecond Z-scan experiments revealed that the heavy water ND suspensions enable strong optical limiting in the wavelength range of 1400-1675 nm. We observed an enhancement of the optical limiting performance in the blue part of the communication window. In particular, at the wavelength of 1400 nm the transmittance of the 2 mm thick sample with 4.5 wt. % ND concentration is suppressed by 45% for the input fluence of 3.8  J/cm(2). The proposed nonlinear optical filter employs the phenomena of the nonlinear absorption and the nonlinear light scattering in ND suspensions.