PbS-polymer nanocomposite with third-order nonlinear optical response in femtosecond regime

Bing Liu; Heping Li; Chwee Har Chew; Wenxiu Que; Yee Loy Lam; Chan Hin Kam; Leong Ming Gan; Guo Qin Xu

doi:10.1016/S0167-577X(01)00336-6

PbS-polymer nanocomposite with third-order nonlinear optical response in femtosecond regime

Bing Liu
, Heping Li
, Chwee Har Chew
, Wenxiu Que
, Yee Loy Lam
, Chan Hin Kam
, Leong Ming Gan
, Guo Qin Xu

National University of Singapore
Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
Nanyang Technological University

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Abstract

A new method is developed using polymerized bicontinuous microemulsions to synthesize PbS-polymer nanocomposite having large nonlinear optical response. Besides a polymeric nonionic surfactant, ω-methoxy poly(ethylene oxide) ₄₀ undecyl-α-methacrylate (C ₁-PEO-C ₁₁-MA-40), a system consisting of methyl methacrylate (MMA), acronitrile (AN), ethylene glycol dimethacrylate (EGDMA), aqueous solutions of Pb(NO ₃) ₂/thioacetamide (TAA) was selected. High-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) results indicated PbS nanocrystals with a width of 5 nm and a cubic structure is formed in water domains. A single-beam Z-scan measurement showed that the nanocomposite polymer has a nonresonant and negative nonlinear refractive index (γ) of 6.8 × 10 ^-12 cm ²/W at 780 nm. The origin of the large nonlinear optical response based on the contribution of surface recombination owing to high surface-to-volume ratios of PbS nanoparticles to the optical nonlinearity is discussed.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	461-469
Number of pages	9
Journal	Materials Letters
Volume	51
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0167-577X(01)00336-6
State	Published - Dec 2001
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

HRTEM
Microemulsion
Nanocomposite
Nonlinearity
PbS
Polymerisation
Z-scan

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PbS-polymer nanocomposite with third-order nonlinear optical response in femtosecond regime

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