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Designing Optical Properties In Infrared Glass, Benn Gleason
Designing Optical Properties In Infrared Glass, Benn Gleason
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Chalcogenide glasses (ChGs) are well-known for their attractive optical properties, such as high refractive index and transparency in across infrared wavelengths. ChGs also possess the ability to compositionally tune properties such as the refractive index, the thermo-optic coefficient, and other non-optical properties. Chalcogenide glasses with compositionally tailored physical and optical properties will provide optical designers with new materials necessary to create novel infrared imaging systems requiring new or expanded functionality. This dissertation has evaluated the relationship between glass composition, the resulting atomic structure, and resulting optical and thermo-optical properties, with specific focus on the infrared refractive index and the thermo-optic …
Elaboration And Optimization Of Tellurite-Based Materials For Raman Gain Application, Guillaume Guery
Elaboration And Optimization Of Tellurite-Based Materials For Raman Gain Application, Guillaume Guery
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Tellurite-based oxide glasses have been investigated as promising materials for Raman gain applications, due to their good linear and nonlinear optical properties and their wide transparency windows in the near- and midwave infrared spectral region. Furthermore, their interesting thermal properties, i.e. low glass transition temperature and ability to be drawn into optical fibers, make tellurite-based glasses excellent candidates for optical fiber amplifiers. The estimation of the strength and spectral distribution of Raman gain in materials is commonly approximated from the spontaneous Raman scattering cross-section measurement. For development of tellurite-based glasses as Raman amplifiers, understanding the relationship between glass structure, vibrational …