{"title":"Characterizations of Nanodiamond Composite Film for Photonics Applications","authors":"Aseel A. Shakaty, J. Hmood, B. Mahdi","doi":"10.53293/jasn.2022.4350.1101","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Due to its flexibility, small size and low cost, the nanomaterials films are widely desired in optical applications. In this study, a solid nanodiamond (ND) film was fabricated and characterized for photonics applications. The nanocomposite films were prepared by drop casting method where ND was embedded into poly Vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene (PVDF-TrFE) as a host polymer. Both physical and optical properties of the prepared film were investigated. To analyze the structure of fabricated ND-PVDF-TrFE film, various measurement methods were adopted, including a field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM), Fourier transform spectroscopy (FTIR), and x-ray diffraction. The nonlinear absorption property of ND-PVDF-TrFE film was studied by balanced twin detector technique (BTDT) using mode-locked fiber laser with pulse width of 1.4 ps at wavelength of 1566 nm. The results showed that the saturable-absorption features of ND-PVDF-TrFE film possess a good nonlinear performance. Furthermore, a good nonlinearity with a high modulation depth makes the ND-PVDF-TrFE film a good candidate to use in many photonics systems such as saturable absorber (SA) in passive Q-switched or mode-locked fiber lasers.","PeriodicalId":15241,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Sciences and Nanotechnology","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Applied Sciences and Nanotechnology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.53293/jasn.2022.4350.1101","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Due to its flexibility, small size and low cost, the nanomaterials films are widely desired in optical applications. In this study, a solid nanodiamond (ND) film was fabricated and characterized for photonics applications. The nanocomposite films were prepared by drop casting method where ND was embedded into poly Vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene (PVDF-TrFE) as a host polymer. Both physical and optical properties of the prepared film were investigated. To analyze the structure of fabricated ND-PVDF-TrFE film, various measurement methods were adopted, including a field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM), Fourier transform spectroscopy (FTIR), and x-ray diffraction. The nonlinear absorption property of ND-PVDF-TrFE film was studied by balanced twin detector technique (BTDT) using mode-locked fiber laser with pulse width of 1.4 ps at wavelength of 1566 nm. The results showed that the saturable-absorption features of ND-PVDF-TrFE film possess a good nonlinear performance. Furthermore, a good nonlinearity with a high modulation depth makes the ND-PVDF-TrFE film a good candidate to use in many photonics systems such as saturable absorber (SA) in passive Q-switched or mode-locked fiber lasers.