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| Author(s): |
Waldir Avansi Junior
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Carlos. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Física de São Carlos (IFSC/BT) |
| Defense date: | 2006-08-08 |
| Examining board members: |
Valmor Roberto Mastelaro;
Fábio Dondeo Origo;
Oscar Peitl Filho
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| Advisor: | Valmor Roberto Mastelaro |
| Abstract | |
This work describes a study regarding the permanent modification and/or crystallization of 40BaO-45B2O3-15TiO2 (BBT) and 40BaO-45B2O3-16SiO2 (BBS) glass compositions when exposed to a continuous CO2 laser beam radiation. The effect of three experimental parameters was evaluated: the laser power, the radiation time exposure and the presence of micro-particles of the ?-BaB2O4 crystalline phase on the glass sample surface prior to radiation. The geometry of permanent modification and the crystallization process were characterized by using the perfilometry, optical microscopy, Micro-Raman spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction (XRD) techniques. The results show that the surface modification and crystallization can be controlled by a suitable choice of the laser power and radiation time exposure. In all samples, it was observed that the presence of ?-BaB2O4 micro-particles on the sample surface affects significantly equally the permanent modification and the crystallization process. The preferential orientation of the ?-BaB2O4 on the (006) plane direction allowed the observation of a relative high intense second harmonic generation effect. The micro-photoluminescence study shows that the Sm3+ ion in BBT glass sample present a high degree of disorder, even in the crystallized samples. On the other hand, when added to the BBS glass sample, it seems that the Sm3+ ions are incorporated onto the crystallized region. (AU) | |