Comparative Study on Au-Ag composition in Lithium Zinc Calcium Fluroborate Glasses: Nonlinear Optics Perspective

Abstract

20Li2O-15CaF2-20ZnO-45B2O3- 0.XAu-(0.5-X) Ag, (where X= 0.2, 0.3) glasses were prepared by the conventional melt quench technique and coded as 2G3S and 3G2S respectively. The idea of this current work is to check the compositional dependence on the gold and silver nanoparticles in the glass. The XRD results confirmed presence of Au-Ag (111) peak at 38.11. The Infrared spectral study confirms the presence of borate segments. The UV Visible Spectroscopic studies confirms the presence of surface plasmon resonance shoulder peak for Ag nanoparticles around 490nm and 509 nm for glass 2G3S and 3G2S which had overlapped with SPR resonance peak of Au around 603 nm for glass 2G3S and around 559nm for glass 3G2S. The nonlinear optical properties were characterized using Z-Scan experimental technique for these glasses and it suggests the Glass 3G2S exhibited better nonlinear refractive index and nonlinear absorption coefficient compared to Glass 2G3S