Issue 94, 2014

Visual monitoring of laser power and spot profile in micron region by a single chip of Zn-doped CdS nanobelts

Abstract

On the basis of pumping-power-dependent emission property, single-chip zinc-doped cadmium sulfide nanobelts are developed to monitor injected laser power and detect the profile of laser focal spots visually in the micron region through color changes. By doping zinc into cadmium sulfide nanobelts, band-edge emission with green color and deep-trap-state emission with red color are generated by injected laser beam pumping. The monotonic intensity ratio changes of these two emissions reflect the pumping power variations, so that the laser power and focus spot distribution can be monitored quantitatively by the on-chip nanobelts. Utilizing the on-chip zinc-doped cadmium sulfide nanobelts to detect input laser power, more than two thousand cycles of pumping laser power increasing and decreasing periodically are applied on the nanomaterial chip, accompanied by emission-color switching between yellow emission and green emission, which confirm that the zinc-doped cadmium sulfide nanobelts are stable and effective. The method involves visually perceiving the change of laser power and detecting the distribution profile of the laser spot. This optical ratiometric method based on nanostructures is quite different from the traditional detection mode by the thermoelectric effect. Therefore, it has potential application as a laser power monitoring tool for optically integrated micro-circuits.

Graphical abstract: Visual monitoring of laser power and spot profile in micron region by a single chip of Zn-doped CdS nanobelts

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
25 Aug 2014
Accepted
03 Oct 2014
First published
06 Oct 2014

RSC Adv., 2014,4, 52550-52554

Author version available

Visual monitoring of laser power and spot profile in micron region by a single chip of Zn-doped CdS nanobelts

X. Wang, W. Zhang, G. Song, B. Zou, Z. Li, S. Guo, J. Li, Q. Li and R. Liu, RSC Adv., 2014, 4, 52550 DOI: 10.1039/C4RA09201E

To request permission to reproduce material from this article, please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

If you are an author contributing to an RSC publication, you do not need to request permission provided correct acknowledgement is given.

If you are the author of this article, you do not need to request permission to reproduce figures and diagrams provided correct acknowledgement is given. If you want to reproduce the whole article in a third-party publication (excluding your thesis/dissertation for which permission is not required) please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

Read more about how to correctly acknowledge RSC content.

Social activity

Spotlight

Advertisements