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Tunable optical nonlinearity of indium tin oxide for optical switching in epsilon-near-zero region
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The propagation of light in the epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) region of materials exhibits intriguing linear and nonlinear optical phenomenon that have been extensively exploited for a plethora of applications. Here, we show that the optical properties as well as the ENZ wavelength of magnetron-sputtered indium tin oxide (ITO) thin films could be judiciously engineered. The measurement of nonlinear optical properties reveals that the control of deposition conditions allows for the tuning of absorptive optical nonlinearity between saturable absorption and reverse saturable absorption. The ENZ wavelength for the ITO film is deduced as around 1553 nm. We obtain the highest third-order nonlinear absorption coefficient and imaginary part of third-order nonlinear susceptibility for the ITO thin film through Z-scan method as -50.56 cm/GW and similar to 38 x 10(-14) e.s.u. at 1050 nm, and -64.50 cm/GW and similar to 45 x 10(-14) e.s.u. at 1550 nm, respectively. We demonstrate further that the strong saturable absorption of the ITO thin film enables Q-switched pulse laser generation in similar to 1050 and similar to 1550 nm regions with tunable repetition rates and pulse energies. The present results suggest the great application potential of the ITO thin film in the field of nonlinear optical devices.
Keywords:
magnetron sputtering deposition
metal oxide semiconductor
optical nonlinearity
saturable absorption
thin film
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