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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 16, Issue 23, Pages 19244-19252Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.019244
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In this work we determine the third, fifth- and seventh-order nonresonant nonlinear optical properties of silver nanoparticles (9nm average diameter) colloids in aqueous solution under high intensity excitation. The nonlinear optical response and its dependence with the nanoparticles filling factor was measured and theoretically described. We show that for low inclusion concentration, the third order nonlinearity of the colloid can be described by the generalized Maxwell-Garnett model. With the increase of the nanoparticle concentration, changes in the medium nonlinearities was observed leading to high order effects. The fifth- and seventh-order susceptibilities were obtained for highly concentrated silver nanoparticle colloid and the data was supported by a theoretical model. The conventional Z-scan technique was employed, using 80 fs laser pulses at 800nm, in a regime of high pulse energy (mu J) and low repetition rate (1kHz). (C) 2008 Optical Society of America
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