Chapter 14
The Luminescent Properties of Photonic
Glasses and Optical Fibers
Jacek Zmojda, Marcin Kochanowicz, Piotr Miluski
and Dominik Dorosz
Abstract In this chapter, the visible luminescent properties of antimony-germanate
and gallo-germanate glasses, glass-ceramics and optical fibers co-doped with different rare-earth (RE) systems (e.g., Sm
3+ , Eu
3+ , Yb
3+ /Tm
3+ , Yb
3+ /Ho
3+ , Yb
3+ /
Tm
3+ /Ho
3+ , Yb
3+ /Tb
3+ , Yb
3+ /Eu
3+ ) have been analyzed. Emission was obtained by
direct excitation of RE ions or in case of co-doped systems by donor-acceptor
energy transfer and upconversion processes. Novel constructions of double-clad,
offset core, double-core, and RE triply doped optical fibers have been presented.
Moreover, the effect of the structure modification of antimony-germanate glasses on
the luminescence shaping has been also presented. Another, presented scientific
area is investigation of plasmon effect in Ag
0 /Eu
3+ co-doped glasses and optical
fibers. The optimization of Ag
0 /Eu
3+ content and formation of silver nanoparticles
process (thermal annealing) in order to enhance luminescence has been presented.
14.1 Introduction
Excellent optical properties of glasses pretended them as the only materials for the
construction of optical fibers. The advantage of glasses is variety of their chemical
compositions and different methods of synthesis. They tend to shape optical
properties in a very wide range and design advanced photonic structures. In particular, rare-earth (RE) doped glasses offer new possibilities for constructing optical
fiber radiation sources which are characterized by unique features. One of the
current directions in optical fiber photonics is research on functional materials
characterized by luminescent properties within the range from ultraviolet to
J. Zmojda Á M. Kochanowicz Á P. Miluski
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Bialystok University of Technology,
Wiejska 45D Street, 15-351 Białystok, Poland
D. Dorosz (&)
Faculty of Materials Science and Ceramics, AGH University of Science
and Technology, 30 Mickiewicza Av., 30-059 Krakow, Poland
e-mail: ddorosz@agh.edu.pl
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
A. Koleżyński and M. Król (eds.), Molecular Spectroscopy—Experiment
and Theory, Challenges and Advances in Computational Chemistry
and Physics 26, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01355-4_14
427
The Luminescent Properties of Photonic
Glasses and Optical Fibers
Jacek Zmojda, Marcin Kochanowicz, Piotr Miluski
and Dominik Dorosz
Abstract In this chapter, the visible luminescent properties of antimony-germanate
and gallo-germanate glasses, glass-ceramics and optical fibers co-doped with different rare-earth (RE) systems (e.g., Sm
3+ , Eu
3+ , Yb
3+ /Tm
3+ , Yb
3+ /Ho
3+ , Yb
3+ /
Tm
3+ /Ho
3+ , Yb
3+ /Tb
3+ , Yb
3+ /Eu
3+ ) have been analyzed. Emission was obtained by
direct excitation of RE ions or in case of co-doped systems by donor-acceptor
energy transfer and upconversion processes. Novel constructions of double-clad,
offset core, double-core, and RE triply doped optical fibers have been presented.
Moreover, the effect of the structure modification of antimony-germanate glasses on
the luminescence shaping has been also presented. Another, presented scientific
area is investigation of plasmon effect in Ag
0 /Eu
3+ co-doped glasses and optical
fibers. The optimization of Ag
0 /Eu
3+ content and formation of silver nanoparticles
process (thermal annealing) in order to enhance luminescence has been presented.
14.1 Introduction
Excellent optical properties of glasses pretended them as the only materials for the
construction of optical fibers. The advantage of glasses is variety of their chemical
compositions and different methods of synthesis. They tend to shape optical
properties in a very wide range and design advanced photonic structures. In particular, rare-earth (RE) doped glasses offer new possibilities for constructing optical
fiber radiation sources which are characterized by unique features. One of the
current directions in optical fiber photonics is research on functional materials
characterized by luminescent properties within the range from ultraviolet to
J. Zmojda Á M. Kochanowicz Á P. Miluski
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Bialystok University of Technology,
Wiejska 45D Street, 15-351 Białystok, Poland
D. Dorosz (&)
Faculty of Materials Science and Ceramics, AGH University of Science
and Technology, 30 Mickiewicza Av., 30-059 Krakow, Poland
e-mail: ddorosz@agh.edu.pl
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
A. Koleżyński and M. Król (eds.), Molecular Spectroscopy—Experiment
and Theory, Challenges and Advances in Computational Chemistry
and Physics 26, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01355-4_14
427