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Photoinduced anisotropic deformations in covalent chalcogenide glasses

K. TANAKA1,* , N. TERAKADO1, A. SAITOH1

Affiliation

  1. Department of Applied Physics, Graduate School of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-8628, Japan

Abstract

The chalcogenide glass is known to exhibit prominent anisotropic deformations when illuminated by linearly-polarized bandgap light. We report new deformation phenomena for As2S3. We also propose that many deformation phenomena can be accounted for by an optical force model..

Keywords

Chalcogenide glass, Photoinduced deformation, Anisotropy, Opto-mechanical, Optical torque, Birefringence, Fluidity.

Submitted at: Jan. 4, 2008
Accepted at: Jan. 18, 2008

Citation

K. TANAKA, N. TERAKADO, A. SAITOH, Photoinduced anisotropic deformations in covalent chalcogenide glasses, Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials Vol. 10, Iss. 1, pp. 124-130 (2008)