Abstract
Nonlinear absorption of sol-gel-type glasses containing oxidized Cu2Se nanoparticles (25 nm in radius) is investigated with the aid of the picosecond excitation-probing technique. The oxidation of Cu2Se nanoparticles leads to the appearance of a wide absorption band, which has a maximum roughly at 1 µm and which is bleached on exposure to laser pulses. The time of relaxation of the bleached state approaches 300 psec, and the cross section for absorption at 1.06 µm is equal to about 1.3·10−16 cm2, as evaluated from the measured absorption saturation curve. The regime of Q-switching is obtained for a number of solid-state lasers with generation wavelengths 1.06, 1.34, and 1.54 µm, when sol-gel-type glasses containing oxidized Cu2Se nanoparticles were used as passive shutters.
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