The progress, and current challenges, in fabricating rare-earth-doped chalcogenide-glass
fibers for developing mid-infrared (IR) fiber lasers are reviewed. For the first time a coherent …

This chapter begins with a brief introduction of this book. Then it describes several important
aspects of the fundamentals of glass and glass nanocomposites (GNCs). In the …

The Ge-As-Te glass has a wide infrared transmission window range of 3–18 μm, but its
crystallization tendency is severe due to the metallicity of the Te atom, which limits its …

For the first time Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition (PECVD) was used for
synthesis of ternary As-Se-Te films with different chemical content. Elemental high-pure …

Abstract (GeTe 4) 100− x Ag x and (GeTe 4) 100− x (AgI) x glasses were prepared by a
melting-quenching method. The glass electrical conductivity was investigated by both …

We have measured and analyzed x-ray photoelectron spectra (XPS) of as-grown and
annealed Ge 33 As 12 Se 55 films compared with bulk material. We found that the as-grown …

Linear and non-linear optical properties are investigated for amorphous Ge 23 Se 62 As 15
thin films irradiated under 80 MeV Silicon swift heavy ions. The changes in optical properties …

Abstract The treatment of 100 MeV Ag swift-heavy ion (SHI) irradiation with five different
fluences (3× 10 10, 1× 10 11, 3× 10 11, 1× 10 12, and 3× 10 12 ions/cm 2) was used to …

Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) was performed at different heating rates under non-
isothermal conditions to probe the glass transition kinetics of several Ge–As–Se glasses …

Arsenic sulfide glass optical fibers typically possess extrinsic absorption bands in the
infrared wavelength region associated with residual hydrogen and oxygen related …