Nanostructured Glasses: Synthesis, Structural Characterization and Raman Gain Investigations

Photonics components, currently used in optical interconnects, are relatively large and not ideally suited for on-chip integration. A reduction in the size of integrated optical devices, while maintaining a high level of performance, is a key challenge in photonics. The ability to construct nano-objects is expected to have a significant impact in the future, leading to the development of fully functional nanodevices, such as nanoscale optical sources.