Organic-inorganic hybrid glass: non-linear optical properties

Abstract

In this paper we report the preliminary results about the optical characterization of a new kind of organic‐inorganic hybrid glass named 4‐((5‐dichloromethylsily1)‐penty)oxy‐cyanobenzene (DCN) synthesized by sol‐gel process. We obtain the sign and magnitude of the sample by the Z‐scan technique using a low power He‐Ne laser at 632 nm in CW operation. The experimental data show that the DNC glass has a negative Kerr optical non‐linearity and is estimated a nonlinear coefficient as Δn∼10−6.