Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Strong third-order optical nonlinearities of Ag nanoparticles synthesized by laser ablation of bulk silver in water and air

  • Published:
Applied Physics A Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

We demonstrate the correlation between strong nonlinear optical response of silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) out of plasmon resonance and efficient third harmonic generation in the plasmas containing Ag NPs. The dynamics of nonlinear optical response of the 8 nm and 50 nm Ag NPs prepared by laser ablation of bulk silver in deionized water using 6 ns, 200 ps, and 60 fs laser pulses is systematically analyzed. Their optical limiting properties are studied at the wavelengths of 800 and 355 nm, using femtosecond and nanosecond laser pulses. Nonlinear absorption coefficient of 8 nm Ag NPs at the wavelength of 1064 nm was measured to be as high as 3 × 10−5 cm W−1. Nonlinear refraction shows the change of sign with variation of the wavelength and duration of probe laser pulses. The theoretical calculation of silver ablation shows the formation of a few nanometer sized particles. We also analyze third harmonic generation in the laser-produced plasmas containing Ag NPs and attribute the enhancement of this process to the influence of small silver clusters. The conversion efficiency of 800 nm towards the third harmonic was measured to be 4 × 10−3, which was a few times larger compared with similar process in air.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1
Fig. 2
Fig. 3
Fig. 4
Fig. 5
Fig. 6
Fig. 7
Fig. 8
Fig. 9
Fig. 10
Fig. 11

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. T. Jia, M. Baba, M. Suzuki, R.A. Ganeev, H. Kuroda, J. Qiu, X. Wang, R. Li, Z. Xu, Fabrication of two-dimensional periodic nanostructures by two-beam interference of femtosecond pulses. Opt. Express 16, 1874 (2008)

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  2. L. Jiang, A. Wang, B. Li, T. Cui, Y. Lu, Electrons dynamics control by shaping femtosecond laser pulses in micro/nanofabrication: modeling, method, measurement and application. Light Sci. Appl. 7, 17134 (2018)

    Google Scholar 

  3. R.A. Ganeev, M. Suzuki, M. Baba, M. Ichihara, H. Kuroda, Low- and high-order nonlinear optical properties of BaTiO3 and SrTiO3 nanoparticles. J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 25, 325 (2008)

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  4. E.V. Garcia Ramirez, S.A. Sabinas Hernandes, D. Ramires Martines, G. Diaz, J.A. Reyes, Esqueda, Third order nonlinear optics in Ag nanocubes: local and nonlocal optical responses as a function of excitation wavelength and particles. Opt. Express 25, 31064 (2017)

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  5. S. Porel, N. Venkatram, D. Narayana Rao, T.P. Radhakrishnan, Optical power limiting in the femtosecond regime by silver nanoparticle–embedded polymer film. J. Appl. Phys. 102, 033107 (2007)

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  6. O. Muller, S. Dengler, G. Ritt, B. Eberle, Size and shape effects on the nonlinear optical behavior of silver nanoparticles for power limiters. Appl. Opt. 52, 139 (2013)

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  7. R.A. Ganeev, M. Baba, A.I. Ryasnyansky, M. Suzuki, H. Kuroda, Laser ablation of GaAs in liquids: structural, optical, and nonlinear optical characteristics of colloidal solutions. Appl. Phys. B 80, 595 (2005)

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  8. C.H. Bae, S.H. Nam, S.M. Park, Formation of Ag NPs by laser ablation of a silver target in NaCl solution. Appl. Sur. Sci. 197–198, 628 (2002)

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  9. M. Procházka, J. Śtěpánek, B. Vlčková, I. Srnová, P. Malý, Laser ablation: preparation of “chemically pure” Ag colloids for surface-enhanced Raman scattering spectroscopy. J. Mol. Struct. 410–411, 213 (1997)

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  10. K.G. Stamplecoskie, J.C. Scaiano, V.S. Tiwari, H. Anis, Optimal size of silver nanoparticles for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. J. Phys. Chem. C 115, 1403 (2011)

    Google Scholar 

  11. M. Darroudi, M. Ahmad, R. Zamiri, R. Abdullah, A. Ibrahim, N. Shameli, K. Shahril, M. Husin, Preparation and characterization of gelatin mediated Ag NPs by laser ablation. J. Alloys Compd. 509, 1301 (2011)

    Google Scholar 

  12. M. Valverde-Alva, T. García-Fernández, M. Villagrán-Muniz, C. Sánchez-Aké, R. Castañeda-Guzmán. E. Esparza-Alegría. C. Sánchez-Valdés. J. Llamazares, C. Herrera, Synthesis of Ag NPs by laser ablation in ethanol: a pulsed photoacoustic study. Appl. Surf. Sci. 355, 341 (2015)

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  13. V. Nikolov, R. Nikov, I. Dimitrov, N. Nedyalkov, P. Atanasov, M. Alexandrov, D. Karashanova, Modification of the Ag NPs size-distribution by means of laser light irradiation of their water suspensions. Appl. Surf. Sci. 280, 55 (2013)

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  14. M. Darroudi, M. Ahmad, R. Zamiri, A. Abdullah, N. Ibrahim, A. Sadrolhosseini, Time-dependent preparation of gelatin-stabilized Ag NPs by pulsed Nd:YAG laser. Solid Stat. Sci. 13, 520 (2011)

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  15. R. Das, S. Nath, D. Chakdar, G. Gope, R. Bhattacharjee, Synthesis of Ag NPs and their optical properties. J. Exp. Nanosci. 5, 357 (2010)

    Google Scholar 

  16. D. Rativa, R.E. De Araujo, A.S.L. Gomes, One photon nonresonant high-order nonlinear optical properties of Ag NPs in aqueous solution. Opt. Express 16, 19244 (2008)

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  17. M. Mashayekh, D. Dorranian, Size-dependent nonlinear optical properties and thermal lens in Ag NPs. Optik 125, 5612 (2014)

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  18. R.A. Ganeev, M. Baba, A.I. Ryasnyansky, M. Suzuki, H. Kuroda, Characterization of optical and nonlinear optical properties of Ag NPs prepared by laser ablation in various liquids. Opt. Commun. 240, 437 (2004)

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  19. R.A. Ganeev, A.I. Ryasnyansky, A.L. Stepanov, T. Usmanov, Saturated absorption and reverse saturated absorption of Cu:SuO2 at λ = 532 nm. Phys. Status Solidi B 241, R1 (2004)

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  20. M. López-Arias, M. Oujja, M. Sanz, R.A. Ganeev, G.S. Boltaev, N.K. Satlikov, R.I. Tugushev, T. Usmanov, M. Castillejo, Low-order harmonic generation in metal ablation plasmas in nanosecond and picosecond regimes. J. Appl. Phys. 111, 043111 (2012)

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  21. R.A. Ganeev, M. Suzuki, M. Baba, H. Kuroda, High harmonic generation from the laser plasma produced by the pulses of different duration. Phys. Rev. A 76, 023805 (2007)

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  22. T. Ozaki, L.B. Elouga Bom, R. Ganeev, J.-C. Kieffer, M. Suzuki, H. Kuroda, Intense harmonic generation from silver ablation. Laser Part. Beams 25, 321 (2007)

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  23. H. Singhal, R.A. Ganeev, P.A. Naik, J.A. Chakera, U. Chakravarty, H.S. Vora, A.K. Srivastava, C. Mukherjee, C.P. Navathe, S.K. Deb, P.D. Gupta, High-order harmonic generation in a plasma plume of in situ laser-produced silver nanoparticles. Phys. Rev. A 82, 043821 (2010)

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  24. D.S. Ivanov, L.V. Zhigilei, Combined atomistic-continuum modeling of short-pulse laser melting and disintegration of metal films. Phys. Rev. B 68, 064114 (2003)

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  25. B.N. Chichkov, C. Momma, S. Nolte, F. von Alvensleben, A. Tünnermann, Femtosecond, picosecond and nanosecond laser ablation of solids. Appl. Phys. A 63, 109 (1996)

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  26. J. Stadler, R. Mikulla, H.-R. Trebin, IMD: a software package for molecular dynamics studies on parallel computers. Int. J. Mod. Phys. C 8, 1131 (1997)

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  27. R.A. Ganeev, Nonlinear refraction and nonlinear absorption of various media. J. Opt. A 7, 717 (2005)

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  28. Y.-P. Sun, J.E. Riggs, H.W. Rollins, R. Guduru, Strong optical limiting of silver-containing nanocrystalline particles in stable suspension. J. Phys. Chem. B 103, 77 (1999)

    Google Scholar 

  29. N. Faraji, W.M.M. Yunus, A. Kharazmi, E. Saion, M. Shahmiri, N. Tamchek, Synthesis, characterization and nonlinear optical properties of silver/PVA nanocomposites. J. Eur. Opt. Soc. Rapid Publ. 7, 12040 (2012)

    Google Scholar 

  30. R.A. Ganeev, A.I. Ryasnyansky, S.R. Kamalov, M.K. Kodirov, T. Usmanov, Nonlinear susceptibilities, absorption coefficients and refractive indices of colloidal metals. J. Phys. D Appl. Phys. 34, 1602 (2001)

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  31. R.A. Ganeev, A.S. Zakirov, G.S. Boltaev, R.I. Tugushev, T. Usmanov, P.K. Khabibullaev, T.W. Kang, A.A. Saidov, Structural, optical, and nonlinear optical absorption/refraction studies of the manganese nanoparticles prepared by laser ablation in ethanol. Opt. Mater. 33, 419 (2011)

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  32. R. Sato, M. Ohnuma, K. Oyoshi, Y. Takeda, Spectral investigation of nonlinear local field effects in Ag nanoparticles. J. Appl. Phys. 117, 113101 (2015)

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  33. R.A. Ganeev, A.I. Ryasnyansky, A.L. Stepanov, T. Usmanov, Characterization of nonlinear-optical parameters of copper- and silver-doped silica glass. Phys. Status Solidi B 241, 935 (2004)

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  34. G.K. Podagatlapalli, S. Hamad, S.P. Tewari, S. Sreedhar, M.D. Prasad, S.V. Rao, Silver nano-entities through ultrafast double ablation in aqueous media for surface enhanced Raman scattering and photonics applications. J. Appl. Phys. 113, 073106 (2013)

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  35. K. Kim, S. Choe, Ultrafast nonlinear optical responses of dielectric composite materials containing metal nanoparticles with different sizes and shapes. Plasmonics 12, 855 (2017)

    Google Scholar 

  36. V. Halte, J.-Y. Bigot, B. Palpant, M. Broyer, B. Prével, A. Pérez, Size dependence of the energy relaxation in Ag NPs embedded in dielectric matrices. Appl. Phys. Lett. 75, 3799 (1999)

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  37. H. Sanchez-Esquivel, K.Y. Raygoza-Sanchez, R. Rangel-Rojo, B. Kalinic, N. Michieli, T. Cesca, G. Mattei, Ultrafast dynamics in the nonlinear optical response of silver nanoprisms ordered arrays. Nanoscale 10, 5182 (2018)

    Google Scholar 

  38. C.Y. Shih, C. Wu, M.V. Shugaev, L.V. Zhigilei, Atomistic modeling of nanoparticle generation in short pulse laser ablation of thin metal films in water. J. Colloid Interface Sci. 489, 3 (2017)

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  39. M. Masnavi, M. Nakajima, K. Horioka, H.P. Araghy, A. Endo, Simulation of particle velocity in a laser-produced tin plasma extreme ultraviolet source. J. Appl. Phys. 109, 123306 (2011)

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  40. H. Singhal, R.A. Ganeev, P.A. Naik, A.K. Srivastava, A. Singh, R. Chari, R.A. Khan, J.A. Chakera, P.D. Gupta, Study of high-order harmonic generation from nanoparticles. J. Phys. B At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 43, 025603 (2010)

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  41. R.A. Ganeev, M. Suzuki, M. Baba, M. Ichihara, H. Kuroda, High-order harmonic generation in Ag nanoparticle-contained plasma. J. Phys. B At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 41, 045603 (2008)

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  42. C. Rodríguez, Z. Sun, Z. Wang, W. Rudolph, Characterization of laser-induced air plasmas by third harmonic generation. Opt. Express 19, 16115 (2011)

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  43. M.L. Naudeau, R.J. Law, T.S. Luk, T.R. Nelson, S.M. Cameron, J.V. Rudd, Observation of nonlinear optical phenomena in air and fused silica using a 100 GW, 1.54 mum source. Opt. Express 14, 6194 (2006)

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  44. R.A. Ganeev, H. Singhal, P.A. Naik, J.A. Chakera, M. Kumar, P.D. Gupta, Fourth harmonic generation during parametric four-wave mixing in the filaments in ambient air. Phys. Rev. A 82, 043812 (2010)

    ADS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgements

RAG thanks the financial support from Chinese Academy of Sciences President’s International Fellowship Initiative (Grant no. 2018VSA0001).

Funding

Natural Science Foundation of China (61774155, 61705227), National Key Research and Development Program of China (2017YFB1104700).

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. The Guo China-US Photonics Laboratory, State Key Laboratory of Applied Optics, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130033, China

    G. S. Boltaev, R. A. Ganeev, P. S. Krishnendu, S. K. Maurya, P. V. Redkin, K. S. Rao, K. Zhang & Chunlei Guo

  2. The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 14627, USA

    Chunlei Guo

Authors
  1. G. S. Boltaev
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. R. A. Ganeev
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. P. S. Krishnendu
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. S. K. Maurya
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. P. V. Redkin
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  6. K. S. Rao
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  7. K. Zhang
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  8. Chunlei Guo
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding authors

Correspondence to R. A. Ganeev or Chunlei Guo.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Boltaev, G.S., Ganeev, R.A., Krishnendu, P.S. et al. Strong third-order optical nonlinearities of Ag nanoparticles synthesized by laser ablation of bulk silver in water and air. Appl. Phys. A 124, 766 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-018-2195-z

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-018-2195-z

Search

Navigation