Enhanced nonlinear transmittance by complementary nonlinear mechanisms:: A reverse-saturable absorbing dye blended with nonlinear-scattering carbon nanotubes

被引：45

作者：

Webster, S

Reyes-Reyes, M

Pedron, X

López-Sandoval, R

Terrones, M

Carroll, DL ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Wake Forest Univ, Ctr Nanotechnol & Mol Mat, Winston Salem, NC 27106 USA

[2] IPICYT, Adv Mat Dept, San Luis Potosi 78216, Mexico

来源：

ADVANCED MATERIALS | 2005年 / 17卷 / 10期

关键词：

D O I：

10.1002/adma.200401772

中图分类号：

O6 [化学];

学科分类号：

0703 ;

摘要：

A nonlinear transmitting device combining a reverse-saturable absorbing dye and nonlinearly scattering suspended carbon nanotubes offers superior performance over the constituent materials. The composite system is dominated by the absorption properties of the dye below the onset of nonlinear scattering from the nanotubes, but above the onset, the dye becomes saturated and nonlinear scattering dominates (see Figure), thus providing additional protection.

引用

收藏

页码：1239 / +

页数：6

相关论文

共 27 条

[1] Electronic structure and optical limiting behavior of carbon nanotubes [J].

Chen, P ;

Wu, X ;

Sun, X ;

Lin, J ;

Ji, W ;

Tan, KL .

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 1999, 82 (12) :2548-2551

[2] Intensity threshold in the conversion from reverse saturable absorption to saturable absorption and its application in optical limiting [J].

Deng, XX ;

Zhang, XR ;

Wang, YX ;

Song, YL ;

Liu, ST ;

Li, CF .

OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS, 1999, 168 (1-4) :207-212

[3] High-dynamic-range cascaded-focus optical limiter [J].

Hernández, FE ;

Yang, S ;

Van Stryland, EW ;

Hagan, DJ .

OPTICS LETTERS, 2000, 25 (16) :1180-1182

[4] Multilevel rate-equation analysis to explain the recent observations of limitations to optical limiting dyes [J].

Hughes, S ;

Wherrett, B .

PHYSICAL REVIEW A, 1996, 54 (04) :3546-3552

[5] THE SATURATION LIMIT TO PICOSECOND, INDUCED ABSORPTION IN DYES [J].

HUGHES, S ;

SPRUCE, G ;

WHERRETT, BS ;

WELFORD, KR ;

LLOYD, AD .

OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS, 1993, 100 (1-4) :113-117

[6] Combination of carbon nanotubes and two-photon absorbers for broadband optical limiting [J].

Izard, N ;

Ménard, C ;

Riehl, D ;

Doris, E ;

Mioskowski, C ;

Anglaret, E .

CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS, 2004, 391 (1-3) :124-128

[7] Selective attachment of gold nanoparticles to nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes [J].

Jiang, KY ;

Eitan, A ;

Schadler, LS ;

Ajayan, PM ;

Siegel, RW ;

Grobert, N ;

Mayne, M ;

Reyes-Reyes, M ;

Terrones, H ;

Terrones, M .

NANO LETTERS, 2003, 3 (03) :275-277

[8] Picosecond optical limiting in reverse saturable absorbers: a theoretical and experimental study [J].

Lepkowicz, R ;

Kobyakov, A ;

Hagan, DJ ;

Van Stryland, EW .

JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA B-OPTICAL PHYSICS, 2002, 19 (01) :94-101

[9] Nature of the electronic transitions in thiacarbocyanines with a long polymethine chain [J].

Lepkowicz, RS ;

Przhonska, OV ;

Hales, JM ;

Fu, J ;

Hagan, DJ ;

Van Stryland, EW ;

Bondar, MV ;

Slominsky, YL ;

Kachkovski, AD .

CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 2004, 305 (1-3) :259-270

[10] Polymethine and squarylium molecules with large excited-state absorption [J].

Lim, JH ;

Przhonska, OV ;

Khodja, S ;

Yang, S ;

Ross, TS ;

Hagan, DJ ;

Van Stryland, EW ;

Bondar, MV ;

Slominsky, YL .

CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 1999, 245 (1-3) :79-97