Light-Induced Effects in Amorphous Chalcogenide Glasses: Femtoseconds to Seconds

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Abstract
Amorphous chalcogenide glasses are intrinsically metastable, highly photosensitive, and therefore exhibit numerous light-induced effects upon bandgap and sub-bandgap illumination. Depending on the pulse duration of the excitation laser, ChGs exhibit a series of light-induced effects spanning over femtosecond to seconds time domain. For continuous wave (CW) illumination, the effects are dominantly metastable in terms of photodarkening (PD) and photobleaching (PB) that take place via homopolar to heteropolar bond conversion. On the other hand, under nanosecond and ultrafast pulsed illumination, ChGs exhibit transient absorption (TA) that is instigated from the transient bonding rearrangements through self-trapped exciton recombination. In the first part of the review, we pay special attention to continuous wave light-induced PD and PB, while in the second part we will focus on the TA and controlling such effects via internal and external parameters, e.g., chemical composition, temperature, sample history, etc.
Funding Information
  • Anusandhan National Research Foundation (EMR/2016/002520)
  • Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India (03 583 (1250)/12/EMR-II)
  • DAE BRNS (37(3)/ 14/26/2016-BRNS/37245)

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