Lateral shearing interferometer for measuring photoinduced refractive index change in As(2)S(3).

Rev Sci Instrum

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Boulevard, Richland, Washington 99352, USA.

Published: September 2008

We have built and demonstrated a lateral shearing interferometer as a process engineering and control tool for the fabrication and characterization of direct-laser-written waveguide structures in chalcogenide glasses. Photoinduced change in refractive index of 0.154+/-0.002 was measured for as-deposited amorphous As(2)S(3) thin films at 633 nm with an estimated measurement uncertainty of 1.3% for this air-gap interferometer configuration. The simple design of this interferometer can easily be adapted to other wavelengths including mid- and long-wave infrared regions to measure changes in refractive index or material inhomogeneities in transmissive materials.

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