Photonic glasses /
This book introduces the fundamental mechanism of photonic glasses - the linear and nonlinear optical effects in glass under intense light irradiation: phot-induced absorption, refraction, polarization, frequency, coherence and monochromaticity changes. Emphasis is placed on new developments in the...
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Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. :
World Scientific Pub.,
2006
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- List of contributors
- 1. From optical glass to photonic glass. 1.1. Introduction. 1.2. Physical fundamentals. 1.3. Optical glasses. 1.4. Photonic glasses
- 2. Structure and properties of amorphous thin films for optical data storage. 2.1. Amorphous Rare Earth-transition Metal (RE-TM) alloy thin films. 2.2. Amorphous metallic and chalcogenide thin films. 2.3. Nonlinear optical amorphous alloy thin films
- 3. New developments in optics and spectroscopy of rare earth ions doped glasses. 3.1. Laser spectroscopy of Nd[symbol] and Yb[symbol] high doped glasses. 3.2. Nonlinear luminescence of Rare-Earth (RE) ions in glasses. 3.3. Super-luminescence of RE-doped glass fibers
- 4. Third-order optical nonlinear properties of glasses. 4.1. Measurement of third-order optical nonlinear susceptibility of glass. 4.2. Optical nonlinearity of dielectric glasses. 4.3. Optical nonlinearity of organic-inorganic hybrid glasses. 4.4. Optical nonlinearity of nano-composite glasses. 4.5. Optical limiting effects
- 5. Second-order optical nonlinear properties of glasses. 5.1. Introduction. 5.2. Second-order optical nonlinearity in silica glasses. 5.3. Second-order optical nonlinearity in high refractive index glasses. 5.4. Applications
- 6. Glass fibers for optical amplification. 6.1. Brief introduction of optical fiber amplifier. 6.2. Er[symbol]-doped phosphate glass fiber amplifiers
- 7. Glass fibers for high power lasers. 7.1. Introduction of optical fibers. 7.2. Fabrication and materials. 7.3. High power lasers based on rare-earth ions doped fibers. 7.4. High power pulsed fiber lasers. 7.5. Recent development and applications of fiber lasers
- 8. Hybrid organic-inorganic solid-state dye laser glasses. 8.1. Organic dyes and liquid dye lasers. 8.2. Hybrid solid-state dye laser glasses and preparation techniques. 8.3. Photostabilities and photodegradation mechanisms of hybrid solid-state dye laser glasses. 8.4. Hybrid solid dye laser glass based on energy transfer between laser dyes. 8.5. Solid-state dye lasers and parameter optimization. 8.6. DFB laser based on sol-gel derived organic-inorganic hybrid thin film waveguides. 8.7. Summary and future prospects
- 9. Optical glass waveguides. 9.1. Principles of optical waveguides. 9.2. Glass waveguides fabrication and optical properties. 9.3. Organic/inorganic hybrid glass waveguide materials. 9.4. Functional glass waveguide devices
- 10. Glass photosensitivity and fiber gratings. 10.1. Glass photosensitivity. 10.2. Principles of fiber gratings. 10.3. Fiber grating fabrications. 10.4. Fiber grating applications
- 11. Glass fibers for photonic crystals. 11.1. Light guidance in PCF. 11.2. Fabrication. 11.3. Properties of PCFs and device applications. 11.4. Non-silica glasses for PCFs
- 12. Functional microstructures in glass induced by a femtosecond laser. 12.1. Introduction. 12.2. Micro-structural changes induced by femtosecond lasers. 12.3. Valence state manipulation of active ions. 12.4. Precipitation of functional crystals. 12.5. Novel phenomena induced by femtosecond lasers.
