Zinc borophosphate glasses for infrared-based optical applications

Safeya Ibrahim; Manal Abdel-Baki; Fouad El-Diasty

doi:10.1117/1.OE.51.9.093401

6 September 2012 Zinc borophosphate glasses for infrared-based optical applications

Safeya Ibrahim, Manal Abdel-Baki, Fouad El-Diasty

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 51, Issue 9, 093401 (September 2012). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.51.9.093401

Abstract

A series of ternary phosphate glass systems required for infrared (IR) photonic device fabrication is synthesized by the melt-quenching technique. The effect of replacing (divalent) ZnO with (monovalent) Na₂O on optical properties of the glass systems is investigated. The dependence of the refractive index on composition is measured over a wavelength range of 1 to 2.5 μm; the second-order nonlinear refractive index is inferred. The different factors that play a role on controlling the glass refractive index, such as electronic polarizability, bridging and non-bridging oxygen, optical basicity, and ionic interaction parameter of oxides are discussed. IR vibrational spectroscopy is used as a structural probe of the nearest neighbor environment in the glass network. The present glasses are proper to be applied in C -band telecommunication systems around 1550 nm.

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Safeya Ibrahim, Manal Abdel-Baki, and Fouad El-Diasty "Zinc borophosphate glasses for infrared-based optical applications," Optical Engineering 51(9), 093401 (6 September 2012). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.51.9.093401

Published: 6 September 2012

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