Abstract

We report measurements of third-order optical nonlinearity of the 90GeS 2–5Ga 2S 3–5CdS (in mol%) chalcogenide glass using the femtosecond time-resolved optical Kerr gate technique at 820 nm. The third-order nonlinear susceptibility was estimated to be as large as 1.0 × 10 −12 esu. The full width at half maximum of the Kerr signal was 150 fs, implying that the sample had a response faster than 120 fs. Its response was dominantly assigned to the ultrafast distortion of the electron cloud. This glass sample is promising in future all-optical switching devices.

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