Abstract
Nonlinear optical absorption of Au-Ag nanoshuttles (NSs) was studied using an open-aperture Z-scan experiment with a 532 nm nanosecond laser at different energies. It was found that, when the laser energy is relatively low, the Au-Ag NSs exhibit saturated absorption (SA). When the laser energy is high, a conversion from SA to reverse saturated absorption (RSA) occurs. The ultrafast dynamic process of Au-Ag NSs was also investigated by using a femtosecond pump-probe technique. It is found that the process contains a fast and slow decay component that depends strongly on the laser intensity. Furthermore, when the probe wavelength is far away from the plasma resonance peak, the decay shows modulation due to the vibration mode of the coherent excitation.
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