Photonic glasses / editors, Fuxi Gan, Lei Xu.

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This book introduces the fundamental mechanism of photonic glasses - the linear and nonlinear optical effects in glass under intense light irradiation: photo-induced absorption, refraction, polarization, frequency, coherence and monochromaticity changes. Emphasis is placed on new developments in the structure, spectroscopy and physics of new glassy materials for photonics applications, such as optical communication, optical data storage, new lasers and new photonic components and devices. The book presents the research results of the authors in new glasses for photonics over the last decade.

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.

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