Understanding aging in chalcogenide glass thin films using precision resonant cavity refractometry The MIT Faculty has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters. Citation Geiger, Sarah et al. "Understanding aging in chalcogenide glass thin films using precision resonant cavity refractometry." Optical Materials Express 9, 5 (April 2019): 2252-2263 © 2019 Optical Society of America As Published http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/ome.9.002252 Publisher Optical Society of America (OSA) Version Final published version Citable link https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/128287 Terms of Use Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. Research Article Vol. 9, No. 5 / 1 May 2019 / Optical Materials Express 2252 Understanding aging in chalcogenide glass thin films using precision resonant cavity refractometry SARAH GEIGER,1,2,5 QINGYANG DU,2 BIN HUANG,2 MIKHAIL Y. SHALAGINOV,2 JÉRÔME MICHON,2 HONGTAO LIN,3 TIAN GU,2 ANUPAMA YADAV,4 KATHLEEN A.RICHARDSON,4 XINQIAO JIA,1 AND JUEJUN HU2,6 1Materials Science and Engineering Department, University of Delaware, 201 DuPont Hall, Newark, DE 19716, USA 2Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA 3College of Information Science & Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China 4CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, 4304 Scorpius Street, Orlando, FL 32816-2700, USA
[email protected] [email protected] Abstract: Chalcogenide glass (ChG) thin films have a wide range of applications in planar photonics that rely on the stability of their optical properties.