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Controlling the sign and magnitude of the nonlinear susceptibility of poled glasses at room temperature

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For the first time, we have demonstrated the control of the sign and magnitude of the second-order optical nonlinearity (SON) of thermally poled soda-lime glasses with a DC voltage applied to the glass at room temperature. We called this procedure “cold re-poling”. The sign inversion of SON can be provided by a voltage opposite in sign to the one used in thermal poling. Regardless of the sign of cold re-poling voltage, it results in up to tenfold increase in the intensity of the second optical harmonic generated by thermally poled glasses. Moreover, cold re-poling makes it possible to restore and increase the SON of poled glasses degraded after thermal treatment, even if the treatment temperature exceeded 400 °C. The cold re-poling process is relatively slow and takes about ~ 2000s. This time correlates with characteristic time of charging/recharging of a capacitor in RC-circuit, which is represented by the poled region of a glass.

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    Ilya Reshetov, Sergey Scherbak, Gennadiy Kan, Vladimir Kaasik, Oleg Pleshakov & Andrey Lipovskii

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AL contributed to conceptualization; VK contributed to methodology; OP contributed to software; SS contributed to formal analysis; IR and GK contributed to investigation; AL contributed to writing—original draft preparation; AL and VM contributed to writing—review and editing.

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Reshetov, I., Scherbak, S., Kan, G. et al. Controlling the sign and magnitude of the nonlinear susceptibility of poled glasses at room temperature. J Mater Sci 58, 11859–11871 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-023-08729-4

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