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Nonlinear Optical Properties of CdS/ZnS Quantum Dots in a High-Molecular-Weight Polyvinylpyrrolidone Matrix

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Sols containing core/shell CdS/ZnS semiconductor quantum dots are synthesized and their nonlinear properties, which are interesting for a large variety of applications in nanophotonics, are studied. The quantum dots produced are smaller in dimensions than the exciton Bohr radius and, therefore, exhibit a well-pronounced quantum-confinement effect. The nonlinear optical properties of low-concentration sols are studied upon exposure to laser pulses with an emission wavelength of 532 nm and a duration of 5 ns by the z-scan technique. The dependences of nonlinear optical coefficients on the concentration of CdS/ZnS quantum dots are obtained. The intensity dependence of two-photon absorption coefficients is presented. The dependence determines the boundary of the influence of high-order nonlinearities on the nonlinear transmittance of the samples. The mechanisms of optical limitation exhibited by sols, specifically, two-photon absorption, nonlinear refraction, and nonlinear scattering are discussed.

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  1. St. Petersburg National Research Academic University, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, 194021, Russia

    A. S. Kulagina

  2. St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics, and Optics, St. Petersburg, 197101, Russia

    A. S. Kulagina, S. K. Evstropiev, N. N. Rosanov & V. V. Vlasov

  3. Joint-Stock Company “Vavilov GOI”, St. Petersburg, 199053, Russia

    S. K. Evstropiev & N. N. Rosanov

  4. Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg, 194021, Russia

    N. N. Rosanov

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Original Russian Text © A.S. Kulagina, S.K. Evstropiev, N.N. Rosanov, V.V. Vlasov, 2018, published in Fizika i Tekhnika Poluprovodnikov, 2018, Vol. 52, No. 8, pp. 865–872.

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Kulagina, A.S., Evstropiev, S.K., Rosanov, N.N. et al. Nonlinear Optical Properties of CdS/ZnS Quantum Dots in a High-Molecular-Weight Polyvinylpyrrolidone Matrix. Semiconductors 52, 997–1003 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063782618080110

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