Title :
Large Optical Nonlinearity of Semiconducting Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes under Resonant Excitations
Author :
Maeda, Atsushi ; Matsumoto, Shinji ; Kishida, Hideo ; Takenobu, Taishi ; Iwasa, Yoshihiro ; Okamoto, Hiroshi
Author_Institution :
University of Tokyo, Japan
Abstract :
Third-order nonlinear-susceptibility spectra of single-walled carbon-nanotubes were evaluated by the Z-scan method. |Imχ(3)| is very large, being 4×10-6esu. Pump-probe measurements demonstrate that large |Imχ(3)| is dominated by coherent processes such as the optical-Stark effect.
Keywords :
carbon nanotube; optical nonlinearity; Absorption; Carbon nanotubes; Nonlinear optics; Optical films; Optical materials; Optical pumping; Pulse amplifiers; Resonance; Semiconductivity; Ultrafast optics; carbon nanotube; optical nonlinearity;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. CLEO/Pacific Rim 2005. Pacific Rim Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9242-6
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2005.1569785