Glasses for Raman nonlinear optics

George Stegeman (1) , Robert Stegeman (1) , Clara Rivero (1, 2) , Kathleen Richardson (1, 3) , Thierry Cardinal (2) , Michel Couzi (4)

1 CREOL - The College of Optics and Photonics [Orlando]
2 ICMCB - Institut de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Bordeaux
3 School of Material Science and Engineering
4 LPCM - Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Moléculaire

The Raman effect, by which light is frequency shifted by a vibrational mode, enters into a number of phenomena in nonlinear optics. Here, we summarize our progress in identifying glass materials with potentially useful Raman properties, methods for measuring the strength of the Raman effect and its spectral dependence, and the properties of a number of different families of glasses. Glasses with both larger peak Raman susceptibilities and larger bandwidths relative to fused silica are reported.

Mots clés: Nonlinear optics; Glass materials; Raman spectroscopy; Raman effect; Measurements

Domaines: Matériaux; Optique [physics.optics]

George Stegeman, Robert Stegeman, Clara Rivero, Kathleen Richardson, Thierry Cardinal, et al.. Glasses for Raman nonlinear optics. Laser Physics, 2006, 16 (6), pp.902-910. ⟨10.1134/S1054660X06060028⟩. ⟨hal-00114191⟩