Highly nonlinear As–S–Se glasses for all-optical switching
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- 15 January 2002
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 27 (2) , 119-121
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.27.000119
Abstract
We have synthesized a series of chalcogenide glasses from the As–S–Se system that is designed to have strong nonlinearities. Measurements reveal that many of these glasses offer optical Kerr nonlinearities greater than 400 times that of fused silica at 1.25 and and figures of merit for all-optical switching greater than 5 at .
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