I. Kang et al., FEMTOSECOND MEASUREMENT OF ENHANCED OPTICAL NONLINEARITIES OF SULFIDEGLASSES AND HEAVY-METAL-DOPED OXIDE GLASSES, Journal of the Optical Society of America. B, Optical physics, 12(11), 1995, pp. 2053-2059
Studies of the nonlinear absorption and refraction of a variety of hea
vy-metal oxide and sulfide glasses are reported. The third-order nonli
nearities were measured with similar to 100-fs pulses at wavelengths b
etween 600 nm and 1.25 mu m, allowing for what we believe is the first
systematic study of the dispersion of the third-order nonlinearities
of these glasses. The results confirm that the nonlinearities of heavy
-metal oxide glasses are determined by heavy-metal content, as reporte
d previously. The measured nonlinear refractive indices are predicted
reasonably well by the semiempirical Boling-Glass-Owyoung formula and
include several results that are among the largest nonresonant nonline
arities reported. The measured dispersion of the nonlinearities is con
sistent with simple theoretical expectations. Finally, most of the gla
sses obey Kleinman's symmetry, from which we conclude that the origin
of the femtosecond-time-scale nonlinearities is electronic. (C) 1995 O
ptical Society of America