“…Research on new optical materials for the mid-infrared region has been conducted for many years due to their potential use in applications such as atmosphere pollution monitoring, eye-safe laser radar, remote sensing, and microsurgery [1,2,3,4]. The spectral transmittance in the mid-IR region of most common optical glasses based on oxides such as phosphate (1200 cm −1 ), silicate (1100 cm −1 ), or borate (1400 cm −1 ) is limited due to their high maximum phonon energies [5,6]. On the other hand, non-oxide glasses with low phonon energy and high transparency in mid-IR are characterized by poor thermal stability which complicates processing them into photonic structures [7,8,9,10,11].…”