Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 8, Issue 1, 70(2010)

Femtosecond measurement of third-order optical nonlinearities in Bi2O3-B2O3-BaO glasses

Tiefeng Xu, Feifei Chen, Shixun Dai, Qiuhua Nie, Xiang Shen, and Xunsi Wang
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  • College of Information Science and Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China
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    We present the measurement of the third-order nonlinearity of Bi<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>-B<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>-BaO glasses using the single Z-scan method with femtosecond laser pulses at 750-850 nm. Both third-order nonlinear refraction \gamma and two photon absorption coefficient \beta are investigated. The \gamma shows an increasing tendency with increasing BaO content, and the largest value is estimated to be 7.2×10<sup>-14</sup> cm<sup>2</sup>/W, which is as large as those of chalcogenide glasses. The dependence of \beta on the normalized photon energy is studied.

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    Tiefeng Xu, Feifei Chen, Shixun Dai, Qiuhua Nie, Xiang Shen, Xunsi Wang. Femtosecond measurement of third-order optical nonlinearities in Bi2O3-B2O3-BaO glasses[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2010, 8(1): 70

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    Received: Feb. 18, 2009

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Mar. 1, 2010

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    DOI:10.3788/COL20100801.0070

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