Femtosecond Transients And Nonlinear Optical Effects In CdSe[sub]x[/sub]S[sub]1-x[/sub] Glasses

N. Peyghambarian

doi:10.1117/12.940876

3 August 1987 Femtosecond Transients And Nonlinear Optical Effects In CdSe_xS_1-x Glasses

N. Peyghambarian

Proceedings Volume 0793, Ultrafast Laser Probe Phenomena in Bulk and Microstructure Semiconductors; (1987) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.940876
Event: Advances in Semiconductors and Semiconductor Structures, 1987, Bay Point, FL, United States

Abstract

Glasses doped with CdSexS1-x microcrystallites have attracted much attention recently. Semiconductor doped glasses are interesting both because of device applications as well as fundamental physics. Room-temperature capability, relatively large optical nonlinearity (n2 ≈ 10-8 - 10-9 cm2/kW) , wavelength tunability (which is obtained by changing the composition x which changes the semiconductor bandedge and thus provides wavelength tunability) , rapid response time (≈10 ps) , ease and inexpensiveness of the fabrication make these materials suitable for guided-wave device application . The physics of quantum confinement effects in all three dimensions makes these materials particulary attractive from the fundamental understanding point of view . In order to observe quantum confinement effects, the crystallite sizes have to be small, with (f uniform size distribution. Commercially available glases have an average diameter of ≈120 Å with a FWHM size distribution of ≈50 Å. Therefore, quantum confinement effects are usually absent in commercial glasses . However, a more uniform size distribution and small crystal diameters can be obtained with careful heat treatment of the glass . Researchers at Corning have been able to fabricate glasses with average crystallite diameter ranging from 30 Å to 80 Å with 24 Å to 44 Å FWHM size distribution, respectively . Optical absorption, photoluminescence, x-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy have been conducted in order to examine microcrystallites as a function of composition and development .

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N. Peyghambarian "Femtosecond Transients And Nonlinear Optical Effects In CdSe_xS_1-x Glasses", Proc. SPIE 0793, Ultrafast Laser Probe Phenomena in Bulk and Microstructure Semiconductors, (3 August 1987); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.940876

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