The unique and striking material properties of chalcogenide glasses have been studied for
decades, providing applications in the electronics industry, imaging and more recently in …

A review of some properties of chalcogenide glasses and the current status of their
applications is given. Techniques to characterize the linear and non-linear properties of …

Focus Serial: Frontiers of Nonlinear Optics Chalcogenide glasses offer large ultrafast third-
order nonlinearities, low two-photon absorption and the absence of free carrier absorption in …

Chalcogenide phase change semiconductors have played a crucial role in the evolution of
photonic technologies. From their decades-long utilization at the core of optical disks to their …

Chalcogenides are compound formed predominately from one or more of the chalcogen
elements; Sulfur, Selenium, and Tellurium. Although they were studied some fifty years ago …

Due to the remarkable properties of chalcogenide (Chg) glasses, Chg optical waveguides
should play a significant role in the development of optical biosensors. This paper describes …

Principles, advantages, applications and drawbacks of pulsed laser deposition (PLD)
technique for thin films preparation are reviewed. The PLD method is promising for …

To overcome the capacity crunch of optical communications based on the traditional single-
mode fiber (SMF), different modes in a few-mode fiber (FMF) can be employed for mode …

Solution-processing offers a pathway to fabricate complex chalcogenide structures for
electronic, imaging and photonic applications. More importantly, it has benefits in flexibility …

A micro-sensor based on chalcogenide glasses was developed on oxidized silicon
substrate for evanescent wave detection in near-infrared spectral domain. This micro-sensor …