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Enhanced photostability and optical nonlinearity of nickel and cobalt organometallic complexes

  • K. B. Manjunatha*
  • , Ravindra Rajarao
  • , P. Poornesh
  • , B. J. Rudresha
  • , G. Umesh
  • , B. Ramachandra Bhat
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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    Abstract

    Nonlinear optical and limiting properties of nickel, cobalt metal-organic complexes and ligand (L) {L = N,N′-o-phenylenebis (4-hyrdoxy-salicylideneimine)} were studied using Z-scan technique using Q-switched Nd: YAG laser with nanosecond pulses at 532 nm. The results reveal that metal complexes exhibit large negative nonlinear refractive index (n 2 ) of the order of 10 −11 esu. The metal complexes displays large nonlinearity than the ligand due to effective charge delocalization between metal ion and ligand. The magnitude of ground state absorption cross section is small compared to the effective excited-state absorption cross section implying the observed nonlinearity is due to reverse saturable absorption. Further, metal-organic complexes exhibit enhanced optical limiting behaviour at nanosecond laser pulses.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)494-497
    Number of pages4
    JournalOptical Materials
    Volume89
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 01-03-2019

    All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

    • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
    • General Computer Science
    • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
    • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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