Photosensitivity and second harmonic generation in chalcogenide arsenic sulfide poled glasses

Marc Dussauze (1) , Xiaolin Zheng (2, 3) , Vincent Rodriguez (1) , Evelyne Fargin (4) , Thierry Cardinal (4) , Frédéric Smektala (2)

1 ISM - Institut des Sciences Moléculaires
2 ICB - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne
3 State Key Laboratory of Silicate Materials for Architectures
4 ICMCB - Institut de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Bordeaux

The present work investigates the photoinduced Second Harmonic Generation processes in thermally poled arsenic sulfide glasses. SHG Maker fringes patterns associated to SHG kinetic measurements about illumination and Raman spectroscopy have been conducted in order to bring new information which confirm the combined influence of charge carriers and mid-range glass structural modification on the poling and the photodarkening mechanisms.

Keywords: Glasses; Chalcogenide; Sulfides

Domains: Material chemistry; Optics [physics.optics]

Marc Dussauze, Xiaolin Zheng, Vincent Rodriguez, Evelyne Fargin, Thierry Cardinal, et al.. Photosensitivity and second harmonic generation in chalcogenide arsenic sulfide poled glasses. Optical Materials Express, 2012, 2 (1), pp.45-54. ⟨10.1364/OME.2.000045⟩. ⟨hal-00747381⟩