Saturable and Reverse Saturable Absorption Features of Lissamine Green Dye in Different Solvent Media

Organic dyes have shown a remarkable nonlinear optical (NLO) characteristics under low power laser regime because of chemical stability, large nonlinearity and high susceptibility. With this view in mind, herein we report the third-order NLO features of lissamine green dye using 5 mW power laser with operating wavelength of 650 nm. The lissamine green dye is dissolved into various polar solvents such as ethanol, methanol, acetone and DMSO. The closed aperture Zscan approach discloses the information about nonlinear refractive index, whereas the open aperture Zscan technique provides the information about nonlinear absorption coefficient. The closed aperture curve shows the peak-valley transmittance is the result of self-defocusing nonlinearity and the open aperture transmittance curve switchover from saturable absorption to reverse absorption in high polar solvent due to polarizability and dipole moment. The third-order NLO features such as nonlinear refractive index (n(2)), nonlinear absorption coefficient (beta), real and imaginary features of third-order NLO susceptibility of the dye is calculated to be the order of, 10(-7) cm(2)/W 10(-3) cm/W, and 10(-7) esu respectively. The correlation between solvent polarizability and dipole moment on lissamine green dye is discussed. The results are revealed that the lissamine green dye is a good candidate for NLO applications.