Self-diffraction of two types has been discovered in the case of resonant excitation of excitons in CdSe/ZnS quantum dots (highly absorbing colloidal solution) by powerful beams of mode-locked laser with picosecond pulse duration. I. The bleaching of exciton transition provokes the creation of transparency channel and laser beam’s self-diffraction at the induced circular aperture. II. Self-diffraction arises for two laser beams intersecting in the cell with colloidal CdSe/ZnS quantum dots due to the induced transient diffraction grating. Nonlinear optical properties responsible for the observed self-action effects in CdSe/ZnS quantum dots are discussed and a method for estimating laser pulse duration is suggested.

Date Published: 8 May 2013
PDF: 7 pages
Proc. SPIE 8772, Nonlinear Optics and Applications VII, 877209 (8 May 2013); doi: 10.1117/12.2017347

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 8772:
Nonlinear Optics and Applications VII
Mario Bertolotti; Joseph Haus; Alexei M. Zheltikov, Editor(s)