Compositional dependence of the nonlinear refractive index of new germanium-based chalcogenide glasses
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In this paper, we report results of n2 measurements of new chalcogenide glasses in the Ge–Sb–S–Se system using a modified Z-Scan technique. Measurements were made with picosecond pulses emitted by a 10Hz Q-switched mode-locked Nd-YAG laser at 1064nm under conditions suitable to characterize ultrafast nonlinearities. The nonlinear index increases up to 500 times the n2 of fused silica with an increase in the Ge/Se ratio and a decrease with an increase of the Ge/Sb ratio. We confirmed, using Raman spectroscopy, that the nonlinear refractive index depends on the number of Ge–S(Se) and Sb–S(Se) bonds in the glass network. Sulfide glasses were shown to have a nonlinear FOM near or o1,
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