Abstract

There are several potential candidate systems for nonlinear optical materials including resonant and non-resonant semiconductor quantum dots, organic materials and glass systems. Two of the glass systems are based on glasses containing transition metal ions. The first system exploits the polarization of the transition metal ions (Ti, V, Nb) incorporated in the glass matrix, while the second is based on glasses with metallic nanoclusters of the transition ions (Cu, Ag, Au). While both systems have been shown to have desirable properties for nonlinear media each systems has different nonlinear properties.

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