Optical nonlinearities and thermal lens effect of a-Si:H films investigated by Z-scan technique
2012
Abstract Nonlinear optical effects have been studied in hydrogenated amorphous silicon films through the single beam Z-scan technique using a modulated CW laser in the millisecond time-scale regime. In these experiments, the samples were moved through the focal region of a focused gaussian laser beam ( λ = 532 nm) while the light transmittance in the far field was measured. The thermal lens effect was observed in the transmittance signal and the time-resolved Z-scan mode could therefore be used to achieve the samples thermal diffusivity ( D ∼ 3 x 10-3 cm2/s) and thermal conductivity ( K ∼ 5 x 10-3 W/Kcm). The Thermal Lens Model was used to determine the samples temperature coefficient of the optical path length change (d s /d T ), and the effective thermal nonlinear refractive index ( n 2) was estimated by the on-axis non-linear phase shift at focus measurements.
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