• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 21, Issue 1, 013602 (2023)
Bin Guo, Zhongshuai Zhang, Yanyan Huo, Shuyun Wang*, and Tingyin Ning**
Author Affiliations
  • Shandong Provincial Engineering and Technical Center of Light Manipulations & Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optics and Photonic Device, School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/COL202321.013602 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Bin Guo, Zhongshuai Zhang, Yanyan Huo, Shuyun Wang, Tingyin Ning. Modulation of epsilon-near-zero wavelength and enhancement of third-order optical nonlinearity in ITO/Au multilayer films[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2023, 21(1): 013602 Copy Citation Text show less
    (a) Theoretical real part of effective permittivity of ITO/Au multilayer stacks. (b) Schematic diagram of an ITO-Au multilayer stack. (c) Cross-sectional image and (d) surface morphology of the IAI-4 multilayer film obtained by SEM.
    Fig. 1. (a) Theoretical real part of effective permittivity of ITO/Au multilayer stacks. (b) Schematic diagram of an ITO-Au multilayer stack. (c) Cross-sectional image and (d) surface morphology of the IAI-4 multilayer film obtained by SEM.
    XRD patterns of the pure ITO film and IAI-4 multilayer film.
    Fig. 2. XRD patterns of the pure ITO film and IAI-4 multilayer film.
    Experimentally determined permittivity of the pure ITO film and effective permittivity of the multilayer films.
    Fig. 3. Experimentally determined permittivity of the pure ITO film and effective permittivity of the multilayer films.
    (a) OA and (b) CA Z-scan data with the theoretical fittings for pure ITO film and multilayer films.
    Fig. 4. (a) OA and (b) CA Z-scan data with the theoretical fittings for pure ITO film and multilayer films.
    Carrier concentration, resistivity, and nonlinear optical response versus the thickness of the Au layer.
    Fig. 5. Carrier concentration, resistivity, and nonlinear optical response versus the thickness of the Au layer.
    Sampleβ (×10−8 m/W)n2 (×10−14 m2/W)Carrier Concentrations (×1021 cm−3)
    Pure ITO−4.992.550.13
    IAI-2−11.648.011.13
    IAI-3−13.8911.164.98
    IAI-4−17.8011.216.86
    Table 1. Saturable Absorption Coefficient β, Nonlinear Refractive Index n2, and Carrier Concentrations in the Samples
    Bin Guo, Zhongshuai Zhang, Yanyan Huo, Shuyun Wang, Tingyin Ning. Modulation of epsilon-near-zero wavelength and enhancement of third-order optical nonlinearity in ITO/Au multilayer films[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2023, 21(1): 013602
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