Abstract
Nonlinear optical properties of metallic and oxide metallic nanoparticles have been extensively studied as saturable absorbers in fiber-optic lasers in the infrared region for the generation of short and/or ultrashort pulses. In this paper, we report an experimental study of the nonlinear optical response of silver and zinc nanoparticles for continuous-wave illumination at 1550 nm. Nonlinear absorption was investigated using the power-dependent transmission and Z-scan techniques. The results obtained from the first technique showed that the zinc and silver particles behave like saturable absorbers, the modulation depths obtained were 15 % and 32 %, respectively. The Z-scan technique showed the presence of nonlinear refraction and absorption in both samples, the open aperture configuration confirmed the behavior of the materials as saturable absorbers. Additionally, the nonlocality of the nonlinear response was analyzed using a numerical model.
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