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Photon effects in chalcogenide glasses

K. SHIMAKAWA1,*

Affiliation

  1. Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Gifu University, Gifu 501-1193, Japan

Abstract

Chalcogenide glasses reveal characteristic optoelectronic properties. The photon effects, i.e. photoinduced effects in the other term, are of particular interest from the viewpoint of fundamental science and modern applications. Current understandings of photon effects, e.g. the photodarkening (PD), the photoinduced volume expansion (PVE), and the photoinduced defect creation (PDC), are briefly reviewed. In particular, through the in-situ and simultaneous measurements of these effects, we will discuss direct relation among these PD, PVE, and PDC..

Keywords

Chalcogenide glasses, Photoinduced metastability, Photoinduced structural change, Photoinduced optical property, Molecular dynamic simulation, Modern applications.

Submitted at: July 3, 2007
Accepted at: Oct. 15, 2007

Citation

K. SHIMAKAWA, Photon effects in chalcogenide glasses, Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials Vol. 9, Iss. 10, pp. 2973-2978 (2007)