All-optical poling of chalcohalogenide and lead-salt silicate glasses

Author

Lopez-Lago, E. ; Gouderc, V. ; Griscom, Laurent ; Smektala, F. ; Barthelemy, A.

Author_Institution

Inst. de Recherches Commun. Opt. et Microondes, Limoges Univ., France

fYear

2000

fDate

10-15 Sept. 2000

Abstract

Summary form only given. It has already demonstrated that a second order SHG nonlinearity may be induced by all-optical means in centrosymmetric materials. The writing process has been later on speed up by simultaneous excitation of the material with high intensity laser pulses at both the fundamental and the harmonic wavelength (the so-called "seeding technique").. In this paper we present the results of our experiments on the all-optical poling of a chalcohalogenide glass and we make a comparison with the behaviors and performance obtained with a commercial lead-salt glass (Schott SFS7).

Keywords

chalcogenide glasses; dielectric polarisation; high-speed optical techniques; optical glass; optical harmonic generation; Schott SFS7; all-optical poling; centrosymmetric materials; chalcohalogenide glass; chalcohalogenide glasses; harmonic wavelength; high intensity laser pulses; lead-salt glass; lead-salt silicate glasses; second order SHG nonlinearity; seeding technique; writing process; Glass; Large Hadron Collider; Nonlinear optics; Optical films; Optical filters; Optical harmonic generation; Optical pulses; Photoconductivity; Power harmonic filters; Writing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2000. Conference Digest. 2000 Conference on

Conference_Location

Nice

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6319-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE.2000.910212

Filename

910212