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Photoluminescence emission from, and third harmonic generation by, ZnO nanorod samples grown using both low and high temperature methods are reported. Our results clearly show that PL emission at cryogenic temperatures from low temperature grown samples is both significantly weaker in intensity and spectrally broader than that from high temperature grown samples. The third harmonic generation efficiency of samples grown by both the low temperature and high temperature methods are however comparable to one another, and much larger than third harmonic generation at a bare quartz surface. Intensity dependence and interferometric frequency resolved optical gating measurements are used to study the third harmonic generation from both sample types. Laser pulse parameters are extracted for pulses subjected to both high and low chirp and our results indicate that ZnO nanostructures grown by low temperature methods allow excellent characterization of ultrafast pulses and are efficient for third harmonic generation and thus are excellent candidate materials for a variety of technological applications.
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EMcG, FG and RG acknowledge LaserLab Europe funding under project MBI001954 enabling travel by EMcG and FG to MBI for extended research visits. RG also acknowledges partial funding of the work by DFG grants (numbers GR1782-12-1 and GR1782-12-2). CG and EMcG acknowledge the Irish Research Council (IRC; formerly the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology, IRCSET) for a postgraduate scholarship under the EMBARK initiative. DB and EMcG acknowledge support from Science Foundation Ireland via the Strategic Research Cluster grant entitled “Functional Oxides and Related Materials for Electronics” (FORME). Finally, we gratefully acknowledge T. Elsaesser and M. Tischer (both MBI) for essential support and stimulating discussions.
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Kumar Das, S. et al. (2015). Comparison of Linear and Nonlinear Optical Properties of ZnO Nanorods. In: Sakabe, S., Lienau, C., Grunwald, R. (eds) Progress in Nonlinear Nano-Optics. Nano-Optics and Nanophotonics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12217-5_11
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