Large and opposite changes of the third-order optical nonlinearities of chalcogenide glasses by femtosecond and continuous-wave laser irradiation

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 18, 2007, Pages

  Zhang, Qiming ^a   Liu, Wei ^a   Liu, Liying ^a   Xu, Lei ^a   Xu, Yinsheng ^b   Chen, Guorong ^b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLASS; IRRADIATION; PHOTOCHROMISM; PHOTONIC DEVICES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

CONTINUOUS-WAVE LASER; NONLINEAR REFRACTIVE INDEX; OPTICAL NONLINEARITY; PHOTONIC GLASS;

CHALCOGENIDES;

EID: 35648984492     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2805636     Document Type: Article

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