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Effect of silver doping on ultrafast broadband nonlinear optical responses in polycrystalline Ag-doped InSe nanofilms at near-infrared

Abstract

There is great interest in transition metal-doped InSe because of its high nonlinearity and ultrafast response time at higher light fluence. Herein, Ag-doped InSe nanofilms were precisely manufactured using a direct current-radio frequency sputtering method, and their ultrafast broadband nonlinear optical responses in near-infrared were systematically researched. Ag-doped InSe nanofilm exhibited a broadband nonlinear optical response (800–1100 nm) and ultrafast carrier absorption (<1 ps), and can act as a potential semiconducting material for all-optical devices. Through precise control of the sputtering process parameters, Ag-doped InSe nanofilms were successfully prepared that were smooth, uniform, and exhibited no cracks. Nonlinear optical studies (femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy and Z-scan measurement) indicated that nonlinear absorption behavior in Ag-doped InSe nanofilm withstands a transformation from saturation absorption to reverse saturation absorption arising from ground state bleaching, free-carrier absorption (FCA), and two-photon absorption (TPA). Additionally, nonlinear refraction behavior in Ag-doped InSe nanofilm was successfully detected near the intrinsic absorption edge, which arose from Kerr refraction and free-carrier refraction. More importantly, the broadband nonlinear response, ultrafast carrier absorption, and carrier recovery time of Ag-doped InSe nanofilm has the ability to controllably tune via Ag doping. Furthermore, Ag-doped InSe nanofilm possesses the nonlinear figure of merit (FOM) of 2.02, which indicates that Ag-doped InSe nanofilm is a promising semiconducting material for all-optical switching devices in near-infrared.

Graphical abstract: Effect of silver doping on ultrafast broadband nonlinear optical responses in polycrystalline Ag-doped InSe nanofilms at near-infrared

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
06 Nov 2019
Accepted
10 Dec 2019
First published
15 Jan 2020
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

RSC Adv., 2020,10, 2959-2966

Effect of silver doping on ultrafast broadband nonlinear optical responses in polycrystalline Ag-doped InSe nanofilms at near-infrared

X. Yan, X. Wu, Y. Fang, W. Sun, C. Yao, Y. Wang, X. Zhang and Y. Song, RSC Adv., 2020, 10, 2959 DOI: 10.1039/C9RA09186F

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