Abstract

Excellent optical nonlinearity is highly promising for the development of multifunctional ultrafast photonics techniques and integrated optoelectronic devices. However, existing numerous optical materials commonly suffer from several challenges, such as bad functional integration, slow response speed, and weak optical nonlinearity thus severely hindering their extensive applications. Here, we first engineer new scalable graphene oxide (GO)-FePt films by chemistry induced self-assembly and then demonstrate the enhanced ultrafast optical nonlinearity by resorting to their interfacial modifications. It is found that the FePt magnetic nanoparticles (NPs) are easily assembled on the surface of the GO by exchanging the surface ligands of the former with evaporated solvent, leading to good water solubility and super-paramagnetism. The femtosecond Z-scan test results show that both the nonlinear saturation absorption and optical Kerr refraction of the pure GO are subjected to reversion once the FePt NPs are introduced. More importantly, we can greatly enhance the ultrafast nonlinear optics response of as-prepared GO-FePt hybrid film by promoting the concentration of magnetic NPs. In addition, the associated optical nonlinearity can be further boosted with femtosecond vectorial beams excitation instead of the linearly polarized one. In principle, the enhanced optical nonlinearity may arise from direct metal-to-semiconductor interfacial charge transfer transition (DICTT) related to the difference in work function and Fermi level together with complicated interaction between the vectorial light fields and the hybrid films. The GO-based magnetic hybrid films with giant ultrafast optical nonlinearity have potential wide-ranging applications in integrated optoelectronics, ultrafast nanophotonics, opto-magnetic storage, and beyond.

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