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Giant photo-expansion in chalcogenide glass

K. TANAKA1,* , A. SAITOH1, N. TERAKADO1

Affiliation

  1. Department of Applied Physics, Graduate School of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-8628, Japan

Abstract

Glass exhibits many kinds of photoinduced phenomena, among which the giant photo-expansion appearing in chalcogenide glasses such as As2S3 may be the most dramatic and promising. Its feature, mechanism, and application including micro-lenses are described..

Keywords

Chalcogenide glass, Photoinduced phenomena, Photo-expansion, Micro-lens.

Submitted at: Oct. 11, 2006
Accepted at: Nov. 2, 2006

Citation

K. TANAKA, A. SAITOH, N. TERAKADO, Giant photo-expansion in chalcogenide glass, Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials Vol. 8, Iss. 6, pp. 2058-2065 (2006)