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Nano-Ag:polymeric composite material for ultrafast photonic crystal all-optical switching

Appl. Phys. Lett. 94, 031103 (2009); doi:10.1063/1.3073712

Published 21 January 2009

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Xiaoyong Hu, Ping Jiang, Cheng Xin, Hong Yang, and Qihuang Gong
Department of Physics and State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People's Republic of China
We report a nanocomposite material possessing large nonlinear optical coefficients and fast response simultaneously, which is made of poly[2-methoxy-5-(2-ethylhexyloxy)-1,4-phenylenevinylene] doped with Ag nanoparticles. Under resonant excitation of the polymer matrix and Ag nanoparticles, the value of the nonlinear susceptibility reaches the order of 10−6  esu. A nonlinear response time of 35 ps is achieved due to the energy transfer from organic molecules to Ag nanoparticles. An ultrafast photonic crystal all-optical switching with an ultralow pump intensity of 0.2  MW/cm2 is realized. ©2009 American Institute of Physics
History: Received 10 September 2008; accepted 31 December 2008; published 21 January 2009
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KEYWORDS and PACS

Keywords
PACS
  • 78.67.Bf
    Optical properties of nanocrystals and nanoparticles
  • 42.70.Qs
    Photonic bandgap materials
  • 61.46.Df
    Structure of nanocrystals and nanoparticles
  • 78.47.J-
    Ultrafast pump/probe spectroscopy (<1 ps) in condensed matter
  • 61.72.up
    Doping and impurity implantation in other materials
  • 42.65.An
    Nonlinear optical susceptibility, hyperpolarizability
  • YEAR: 2009

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