1. Formation of Si nanocrystals in glass by femtosecond laser micromachining
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Lin, Geng, Pan, Huaihai, Dai, Ye, He, Fei, Chen, Danping, Cheng, Ya, Jiang, Xiongwei, Zhang, Long, Qiu, Jianrong, and Zhao, Quanzhong
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NANOCRYSTALS , *SILICATES , *FEMTOSECOND lasers , *GLASS , *PRECIPITATION (Chemistry) , *OPTICAL materials , *OPTICAL properties of metals , *MICROFABRICATION , *TRANSMISSION electron microscopy - Abstract
Abstract: We report on the precipitation of Si nanocrystals inside a borosilicate glass by using an 800nm, 250kHz femtosecond laser irradiation, which was confirmed with X-ray diffraction, Raman spectra and transmission electron microscopy analyses. Refractive index profile reveals that the refractive index of the Si nanocrystals precipitated region increased up to 8.7% in comparison with that of the unirradiated area, leading to a large diffraction efficiency of the fabricated dot structure. Furthermore, the third-order optical nonlinearity of the Si nanocrystals precipitated glass is greatly enhanced based on the Z-scan measurement. These results may find applications for the fabrication diffractive optical devices and optical switches. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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- 2011
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