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Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy of Two-Dimensional Materials
dc.contributor.advisor | Zhao, Hui | |
dc.contributor.author | Cui, Qiannan | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-04-20T21:29:03Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-04-20T21:29:03Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-05-31 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2017 | |
dc.identifier.other | http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:15176 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/26320 | |
dc.description.abstract | Nonlinear optical properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials, such as transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), graphene, black phosphorus, and so on, play a key role of understanding nanoscale light-matter interactions, as well as developing nanophotonics applications from solar cells to quantum computation. With ultrafast lasers, we experimentally study nonlinear optical properties of 2D materials. Employing transient absorption microscopy, we study several members of 2D materials, such as WSe2, TiS3 and ReS2. The dynamical saturable absorption process of 2D excitons is spatiotemporally resolved. Intrinsic parameters of these 2D materials, such as exciton lifetime, exciton diffusion coefficient, and exciton mobility, are effectively measured. Especially, in-plane anisotropy of transient absorption and diffusive transport is observed for 2D excitons in monolayer ReS2, demonstrating the in-plane degree of freedom. Furthermore, with quantum interference and control nanoscopy, we all-optically inject, detect and manipulate nanoscale ballistic charge currents in a ReS2 thin film. By tuning the phase difference between one photon absorption and two photon absorption transition paths, sub-picosecond timescale of ballistic currents is coherently controlled for the first time in TMDs. In addition, the spatial resolution is two-order of magnitude smaller than optical diffraction limit. The second-order optical nonlinearity of 2D monolayers is resolved by second harmonic generation (SHG) microscopy. We measure the second-order susceptibility of monolayer MoS2. The angular dependence of SHG in monolayer MoS2 shows strong symmetry dependence on its crystal lattice structure. Hence, second harmonic generation microscopy can serve as a powerful tool to noninvasively determine the crystalline directions of 2D monolayers. The real and imaginary parts of third-order optical nonlinearity of 2D monolayers are resolved by third harmonic generation (THG) microscopy and two-photon transient absorption microscopy, respectively. With third harmonic generation microscopy, we observe strong and anisotropic THG in monolayer and multilayer ReS2. Comparing with 2D materials with hexagonal lattice, such as MoS2, the third-order susceptibility is higher by one order of magnitude in ReS2 with a distorted 1T structure. The in-plane anisotropy of THG is attributed to the lattice distortion in ReS2 after comparing with a symmetry analysis. With two-photon transient absorption microscopy, we observe a giant two-photon absorption coefficient of monolayer WS2. | |
dc.format.extent | 144 pages | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | University of Kansas | |
dc.rights | Copyright held by the author. | |
dc.subject | Condensed matter physics | |
dc.subject | Optics | |
dc.subject | Materials Science | |
dc.subject | 2D materials | |
dc.subject | Coherent control | |
dc.subject | Second harmonic generation | |
dc.subject | Third harmonic generation | |
dc.subject | Transient absorption | |
dc.subject | Ultrafast lasers | |
dc.title | Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy of Two-Dimensional Materials | |
dc.type | Dissertation | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Han, Siyuan | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Wu, Judy | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Chan, Wai-Lun | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Hui, Rongqing | |
dc.thesis.degreeDiscipline | Physics & Astronomy | |
dc.thesis.degreeLevel | Ph.D. | |
dc.identifier.orcid | ||
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess |