We studied the processes of pulsed and continuous-wave (CW) laser excitation of photoluminescence (PL) in nc-Si/SiOx nanoparticles. CW laser irradiation of the nc-Si/SiOx sol in dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) and in a thin film was found to quench PL with an essentially nonexponential dynamics. The laser-induced variation of the Rayleigh scattering signal from the nc-Si/SiOx sol in DMSO was found to replicate that of the PL quenching. The IR and Raman spectra of the laser-exposed nc-Si/SiOx exhibited no new bands that could be evidence of their chemical transformations. There were also no perceptible effects pointing to laser-induced aggregation of the nc-Si/SiOx particles in the sol. 355 nm pulse-periodic laser irradiation of the nc-Si/SiOx particles preliminarily exposed to a 405 nm CW laser (which causes a strong PL quenching effect) was found to result in a rapid restoration of the original PL signal, which means that the effect of laser quenching of PL can be entirely reversible. We considered a mechanism of the reversible photosensitivity of nc-Si/SiOx, based on the processes of ionization of the photoluminescent oxygen-deficient centers in their suboxide shell and electron capture by traps, followed by their laser-assisted photorecombination.
Stochastic interference of partially coherent light multiple scattered by a random medium is considered. The relationship between the second- and third-order moments of intensity fluctuations in random interference patterns, the coherence function of probe radiation, and the probability density of path differences for the interfering partial waves in the medium are established. The obtained relationships were verified using the statistical analysis of spectrally selected fluorescence radiation emitted by the laser-pumped dye-doped random medium. Rhodamine 6G water solution was applied as the doping agent for the ensembles of densely packed silica grains which were pumped by the CW radiation (532 nm) from the diode-pumped solid state laser. Experimentally observed abrupt decay of the second- and third-order moments of fluorescence intensity fluctuations for the wavelengths ranging from 620 nm to 680 nm is interpreted in terms of amplification of spontaneous emission at large dye concentrations. This paper discusses the new optical probe of random media defined as "the reference-free path length interferometry with the intensity moments analysis".
Here we present the data on the energy-band-gap characteristics of composite nanoparticles produced by modification of the amorphous potassium polytitanate in aqueous solutions of different transition metal salts. Band gap characteristics are investigated using diffuse reflection spectra of the obtained powders. Calculated logarithmic derivative quantity of the Kubelka–Munk function reveals a presence of local maxima in the regions 0.5–1.5 eV and 1.6–3.0 eV which correspond to band gap values of the investigated materials. The values might be related to the constituents of the composite nanoparticles and intermediate products of their chemical interaction.
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