High brightness mid-IR sources have matured and are becoming viable solutions to many medical, defense, and sensing demands. Recently, super-continuum from 3.6-4.8μm with an average power of 22W has been demonstrated using a ZGP optical parametric oscillator [1]. To fully utilize the power and bandwidth of sources like these, passive optical components possessing both high optical and high ther...

Background. Bone defects following tumor resection and osteolysis due to bone lesions, periodontal tissue disorders, and bone reconstruction are challenges that surgeons face. Gass-ceramic-chitosan nanocomposite contains chitosan, a derivative of crustaceans' exoskeleton. Methods. Thirty-two 6-8-week-old male Wistar rats were chosen. One hole on each right and left tibia was made. The right tib...

• Spin-coated and thermally evaporated As 33 S 67 chalcogenide thin films were studied. Submicron diffraction gratings prepared by soft PDMS stamp hot embossing. Deposition technique thermal treatment influence on structure depth was Formation of structures below temperature glass transition observed. Hypothesis different mass transport mechanism in spin-coated film presented. Chalcogenide vitr...

The regenerator glass-ceramic is produced as a honeycomb product for a turbine engine heat exchanger. It is made from a powdered glass frit, which as a slurry can impregnate paper that is wound as alternately corrugated sheets on a wheel. After firing, a porous ceramic regenerator wheel is produced that allows energy to be transferred from hot exhaust gases to the cold intake air in the turbine...

A ceramic material suitable for packaging of large scale integrated circuit is produced by the process of forming a mixture of a powdered glass ceramic material which is a glassy precursor to cordierite ceramic material, formed by the steps which are as follows: a. Mix tetragonal phase material selected from the group consisting of zirconia or hafnia powder con taining a stabilizing oxide compo...

We demonstrate, for the first time to the best of our knowledge, low-loss, Si-CMOS-compatible fabrication of single-mode chalcogenide strip waveguides. As a novel route of chalcogenide glass film patterning, lift-off allows several benefits: leverage with Si-CMOS process compatibility; ability to fabricate single-mode waveguides with core sizes down to submicron range; and reduced sidewall roug...

The postfabrication modification of the group delay in silicon-photonic waveguides is proposed, simulated and demonstrated experimentally. Group delay variations of 2% are achieved through photo-induced changes to an upper cladding layer of photosensitive As₁₀Se₉₀ chalcogenide glass. The illumination of the cladding layer by intense green light for a few seconds leads to mass transfer and remov...

Firstand second-order Bragg reflectors at telecommunication wavelength (1.5 m) were fabricated in single-mode monolayer (As2S3) and multilayer (As-S-Se/As-S) chalcogenide glass (ChG) planar waveguides with near bandgap illumination using an interferometric technique. Reflectivities as high as 90% near 1555 nm, and index modulations up to 3 10 4 were achieved. The volume photodarkening effect is...

in this study, an attempt has been made to study the effect of bi2o3 addition as nucleating agent on the liquid-liquid phase separation, crystallization and dielectric properties of samples prepared by sintering and crystallization of powdered glass in pbo-tio2-b2o3-sio2 glass-ceramic system using dta, xrd, sem and lcr techniques. the results showed that the addition of bi2o3 resulted in a quit...

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...