Chalcogenide Glasses

Crystallization Kinetics of Chalcogenide Glasses

Chalcogenide glasses are disordered non crystalline materials which have pronounced tendency their atoms to link together to form link chain. Chalcogenide glasses can be obtained by mixing the chalcogen elements, viz, S, Se and Te with elements of the periodic table such as Ga, In, Si, Ge, Sn, As, Sb and Bi, Ag, Cd, Zn etc. In these glasses, short-range inter-atomic forces are predominantly cov...

Photoinduced Fluidity and Viscoelasticity in Chalcogenide Glasses

This work is an attempt to apply conventional mechanical testing to characterize the photoinduced viscoelastic behavior of chalcogenide glasses. Creep or relaxation-recovery experiments are usually performed to characterize the delayed elastic contribution to deformation, during thermally activated flow. In this paper, relaxation-recovery is used to characterize delayed elasticity under irradia...

Photodarkening profiles and kinetics in chalcogenide glasses.

Nonlinear lightwave circuits in chalcogenide glasses fabricated by ultrafast laser.

This Letter reports a nonlinear directional waveguide coupler written by ultrafast laser in gallium lanthanum sulfide chalcogenide glass. The nonlinear waveguide device is tested with laser pulses input in two orthogonal polarizations, and all optical switching at 1040 nm between the two coupled waveguides is observed at a peak fluence of 16 GW/cm2. The spectra and autocorrelation measurement f...

Molecular Struct’ure and Crystallization Behavior of Chalcogenide Glasses

Isothermal crystallization of ternary (Ge,S,), -X(Sn,S,), glasses is examined over the glass forming range 0 < x < 0.6. Time-temperature-transformation (TIT) curves are obtained using scanning calorimetry. The results show that both nucleation and growth processes dominate crystallization of the glasses in the range 0 < .Y < 0.25, but only growth processes are found to occur once x 2 0.25. The ...