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 …

The interaction of ultra-fast sub-picosecond laser pulses with solids is a very broad area of
research. The boundaries for research fields covered by this review are defined as follows. A …

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 …

This review encompasses ultrafast laser interaction with matter in a broad range of
intensities~ 10 10–10 15 W/cm 2. We consider the material transformation processes …

The tremendous interest in the field of waveguide lasers in the past two decades is largely
attributed to the geometry of the gain medium, which provides the possibility to store optical …

This is the first comprehensive treatment of the interaction of femtosecond laser pulses with
solids at nonrelativistic intensity. It connects phenomena from the subtle atomic motion on …

We report on the fabrication and optical properties of etched highly nonlinear As_2S_3
chalcogenide planar rib waveguides with lengths up to 22.5 cm and optical losses as low as …

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 …

We report the fabrication and characterization of rib chalcogenide waveguides produced by
dry etching with CF4 and O2. The high index contrast waveguides (?? n~ 1) show a …

We demonstrate integrated all-optical 2R regenerators based on Kerr optical nonlinearities
(subpicosecond response) in chalcogenide glass waveguides with integrated Bragg grating …