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External influence on third-order optical nonlinearity of transparent chalcogenide glass-ceramics

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Transparent 90GeS2⋅10Ga2S3(G10) chalcogenide glass-ceramics containing β-GeS2 nanocrystals was successfully fabricated through controllable crystallization based on the knowledge of its nucleation-rate-like curve. Using the conventional Z-scan method, both large spectral dependence and crystallinity dependence of optical nonlinear parameters were learned under the excitation of different wavelengths that in proximity of the half-bandgap. In particular, a large value of figure of merit (FOM≈11.64) was obtained in the crystallized sample after the heat-treatment at 466°C for 40 h. Although it is not a straightforward process to select an appropriate medium for a specific application, this work opens a new way to construct suitable optical nonlinear properties (e.g., large FOM) though modifying the microstructure of chalcogenide glass-ceramics.

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  1. College of Materials Science & Chemical Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315211, China

    Changgui Lin

  2. Laboratoire des Verres et Céramiques, UMR-CNRS 6226, Sciences chimiques de Rennes, Université de Rennes 1, 35042, Rennes Cedex, France

    Laurent Calvez & Xianghua Zhang

  3. College of Information Science and Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315211, China

    Lei Ying, Feifei Chen, Bao’an Song, Xiang Shen & Shixun Dai

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Lin, C., Calvez, L., Ying, L. et al. External influence on third-order optical nonlinearity of transparent chalcogenide glass-ceramics. Appl. Phys. A 104, 615–620 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-011-6454-5

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