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Nanocomposite films of an organic dye-polymer (Indigo Carmine-PVA) system were fabricated and their optical limiting behaviour was investigated under excitation with 532 nm laser pulses of 5 ns temporal width using the open aperture Z-scan technique. The samples displayed optical limiting behavior under the experimental conditions. The Atomic Force Microscopic (AFM) analysis of the surface topography revealed homogeneous distribution of nanoclustered aggregates grown within the polymer matrix and an average roughness of ∼2.02 nm for the surface. The estimated values of the effective nonlinear absorption coefficient, βeff (∼10-7-10-8 cm/W) marked up to the highest reported ones in literature in the nanosecond regime. The results indicate that these nanocomposite films are potential materials for optical limiting devices used for the protection of human eyes and other delicate optical sensors from laser induced optical damage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Naphthol Green B dye-polyvinyl alcohol composite films were fabricated and their nonlinear absorption properties were investigated using the Z-scan technique under excitation with 5ns laser light pulses at 532 nm. The samples displayed a switchover from saturable absorption to reverse saturable absorption with increase in either intensity or concentration. The measured values of β and IS were found to be of the order of 10-7 cm/W and 109 W/cm2 respectively. The atomic force microscopic analysis of the composite films revealed homogeneous distribution of aggregated nanoclusters marked by a low average surface roughness ≈1.8 nm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]