Institution: | aUniversidade Federal de Pernambuco, Departamento de Física, 50670-901 Recife, PE, Brazil bLaboratoire POMA, UMR CNRS 6136, Université d’Angers, 2 Boulevard Lavoisier, 49045 Angers Cedex 01, France cLURE, Université Paris Sud, BP 34, 91898 Orsay Cedex, France dLPMC, UMR 5617 CNRS, Université de Montpellier II, Place Eugène Bataillon, CC 3, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France eLAMF, Instituto de Química, UNESP, 14801-970 Araraquara, SP, Brazil |
Abstract: | The nonlinear refractive index, n2, of films based on the new glass system Sb2O3–Sb2S3 was measured at 1064 nm with laser pulses of 15 ps, using a single-beam nonlinear image technique in presence of a phase object. The films were prepared from bulk glasses by RF-sputtering. A large value of n2 = 3 × 10?15 m2/W, which is three orders of magnitude larger than for CS2, was determined. The result shows the strong potential of antimony–sulfide glass films for integrated nonlinear optics. |