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+ + = dx x p x p
p
z T
o o
o
) exp( ) 2 exp( 1 ln
1
) (
2
2 / 1
2 2
2 / 1
(2)
Where p
o
=(2I
o
2
L
eff
'
)
1/2
, I
o
=I
oo
/(1+z
2
/z
o
2
) is the excitation intensity at the position z, z
o
=
o
2
/, where z
0
is the Rayleigh
range,
o
is the minimum beam waist at focal point (z=0), is the laser free-space wavelength, L
eff
`=[1-exp(-2
o
L)]/2
o
is the effective sample length for 3PA processes; L is the sample length and
o
is the linear absorption coefficient. The
open aperture Z-scan graphs are always normalized to linear transmittance i.e., transmittance at large values of |z|. The
3PA coefficient can be extracted from the best fit between equation (2) and the experiment (OA) Z-scan curve. If p
o
<1
equation (2) can be expanded in a Taylor series as:
=
1
2 / 1
2 2
1
) 1 2 ( )! 1 2 (
) 1 (
m
m
o m
m m
p
T (3)
Furthermore, if the higher order terms are ignored, the transmission as a function of the incident intensity is given by
R. L. Sutherland [9]:
2 / 3
' 2
3
1
eff o
L I
T
= (4)
The sold curve in Figure 4 is the best fit for equation (4). The equation (4) shows clearly that the depth of the
absorption dip is linearly proportional to the 3PA coefficient , but the shape of the trace is primarily determined by
the Rayleigh range of the focused Gaussian beam. The fitted value of is on the order of 0.0586 cm
3
/GW
2
. This value
is ten times of magnitudes higher than the value observed with bulk TiO
2
sample.
4. Conclusion
The three photon absorption has been observed in TiO
2
thin film prepared by PLD method upon illuminating it by
femtosecond Titanium-Sapphire laser. The fully computerized Z-scan system was used to measure the nonlinear
absorption coefficient of the prepared samples. The value of the measured nonlinear coefficient was found to be ten
times higher than the bulk value.
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AUTHOR
Raied K Jamal received the B.S., M.S. and PhD. degrees in Physics department from collage of science,
Baghdad university in 1998, 2001 and 2012, respectively. During 1998-2012, he stayed in Laser and
Molecular Laboratory (LML) also worked at Electro-optics Laboratory (EOL). Ministry of higher
education in Iraq.