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Chalcogenide Glasses


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Compared to oxide-based glasses, vitreous materials involving chalcogens form a rather new family of glasses which have received attention, mainly because of their transmission in the mid mid-infrared. Indeed as low phonon compounds, these heavy anion glasses allow the fabrication of moulded optics for infrared cameras as well as infrared fibres operating in a large spectral range. These waveguides, when correctly tapered, allows the development of a new generation of sensitive evanescent-wave optical sensors which have been used for biomedical applications. Because they contain heavy polarizable anions as well as lone-pair electrons, these glasses exhibit very large non-linear properties compared to siloca and compared to silica and are candidates for fast optical switching and signa regeneration in telecom.

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Amorphous Semiconductors.
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Satish Chandel
Dept. of Physics, Govt. College, Bilaspur, (H.P.)-174001, India

Abstract


Compared to oxide-based glasses, vitreous materials involving chalcogens form a rather new family of glasses which have received attention, mainly because of their transmission in the mid mid-infrared. Indeed as low phonon compounds, these heavy anion glasses allow the fabrication of moulded optics for infrared cameras as well as infrared fibres operating in a large spectral range. These waveguides, when correctly tapered, allows the development of a new generation of sensitive evanescent-wave optical sensors which have been used for biomedical applications. Because they contain heavy polarizable anions as well as lone-pair electrons, these glasses exhibit very large non-linear properties compared to siloca and compared to silica and are candidates for fast optical switching and signa regeneration in telecom.

Keywords


Amorphous Semiconductors.

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