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A novel photo-thermo-refractive glass with chlorine instead of bromine for holographic application

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CERAMICS INTERNATIONAL
卷 48, 期 18, 页码 26750-26757

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ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceramint.2022.05.372

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Photo-thermo-refractive glass; X-ray diffraction; Silver nanoparticles; Surface plasmon resonance; NaF nanocrystals; Volume bragg grating

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  1. Development Program of ITMO University

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In holographic applications, traditional photo-thermo-refractive (PTR) glass has limitations due to light scattering on large NaF nanocrystals. To overcome this issue, a novel PTR glass was developed by replacing bromine with chlorine, enabling higher silver concentration and successful recording of volume Bragg gratings.
The well-known standard photo-thermo-refractive (PTR) glass has some limitations in holographic applications in the visible region due to light scattering on the large NaF nanocrystals formed during the photo-thermo-induced (PTI) crystallization process. The large size of the NaF nanocrystals can be reduced by forming more nucleation centers (silver nanoparticles). We suppose this can be achieved by introducing more silver into the batch composition of the glass. However, bromine does not permit high silver concentrations due to the spontaneous crystallization and high Mie-scattering. Therefore, we introduce a novel PTR glass by replacing bromine with chlorine. The novel glass enables us to increase the silver concentration and consequently increase the concentration of the formed nanoparticles. The optical properties, differential scanning calorimetry, and X-ray diffraction analyses were performed on the novel glasses. An experimental and theoretical investigation of the PTI crystallization process was carried out by monitoring the evolution of the surface plasmon resonance (SPR) absorption band. It was found that the UV exposure and heat treatment lead to precipitation of the NaF crystalline phase on a chlorine-containing dielectric shell that surrounds the silver nanoparticle. It was also found that using chlorine instead of bromine leads to a blue shift in the SPR absorption peak location. Volume Bragg gratings were successfully recorded in the novel PTR glasses. The maximum value of the refractive index modulation amplitude obtained for the novel glass is comparable with that for the standard PTR glass.

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