Pulsed Laser Deposition of magnetically ordered polycrystalline SmFeO3 films has been optimized onto SiO2 glass substrates as function of substrate temperature, oxygen pressure and pulsed laser fluency. Using a KrF excimer laser, crystallization temperature is found to be about 1048 K for a weak fluency of only 1.7J cm(-2). We show that this growth temperature can be reduced using higher fluency and that it is possible to obtain a film texturation along the c axis by reducing the oxygen pressure at given temperature and fluency. In a second part, we focus on the SmFeO3 optical constants determined by in situ ellipsometry using a stacking model and the Cauchy dispersion relation for SmFeO3 layer. We show a good correlation between the transmission and reflection calculated from these data and measured by ex situ spectrophotometry in the visible range. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.