Third-order nonlinear optical properties of some novel BODIPYs

Author

Potamianos, D. ; Giannakopoulou, P. ; Kaloudi-Chantzea, A. ; Pistolis, G. ; Couris, S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Univ. of Patras, Patras, Greece

fYear

2014

fDate

6-10 July 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

The nonlinear optical properties of a series of novel boron dipyrromethene derivatives (BODIPY) are investigated by means of the Z-scan technique under 4 ns and 35 ps, visible and infrared laser pulses. All studied BODIPYs were found to exhibit strong saturable absorption and insignificant nonlinear refraction under visible excitation, while no response was observed under infrared laser excitation. The nonlinear optical parameters of the BODIPYs have been determined, revealing large nonlinear absorption coefficient ß values.

Keywords

absorption coefficients; high-speed optical techniques; nonlinear optics; optical saturable absorption; organic compounds; BODIPY; Z-scan technique; boron dipyrromethene derivatives; infrared laser pulses; nonlinear absorption coefficient; nonlinear refraction; saturable absorption; third-order nonlinear optical properties; time 35 ps; time 4 ns; visible excitation; visible laser pulses; Absorption; Integrated optics; Laser excitation; Measurement by laser beam; Nonlinear optics; Optical imaging; Optical sensors; BODIPY; Z-scan; nonlinear optical properties; saturable absorption;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2014 16th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Graz

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2014.6876643

Filename

6876643