THE MECHANISM OF ENHANCEMENT OF PHOTOINDUCED ABSORPTION IN AS2S3 GLASS AT SUB-BANDGAP ILLUMINATION

The dependence of additional optical lasses due to illumination of opt ical As2S3 glass fibers has been investigated. The qualitative explana tion of the observed dependence is given based on the model of activat ion of carriers and their redistribution on localized states in As2S3 glass stimulated by sub-bandgap light h omega(sb)< E(g) at 77 K, which leads to the value of photoinduced absorption in the material studied . It was found that subsequent illumination of the samples with sub-ba ndgap light can not only bleach the previously induced absorption but it can also produce an enhancement of photoinduced absorption. The mec hanism of non-monotonic property of the kinetics and transient enhance ment of photoinduced absorption is discussed. A system of rate equatio ns which describes the process of excess carrier generation, their tra pping and redistribution on localized states is proposed. The results of computer simulation of mathematical solutions obtained from photoin duced absorption rate equations are in good agreement with experimenta l results.