Near infrared (NIR) luminescent materials are an exciting playground for
telecommunications, biosciences and solar energy conversion. In particular, transition metal …

Transparent glass ceramics (TGCs) with minimized scattering loss offer the combined
characteristics of both glasses and (transparent) ceramics. The functionalities of the …

This study explores the novel production of high-performance glass ceramics (GCs) by
harnessing readily available and cost-effective raw materials schist, dolomite, and …

One of the major driving forces for the development of new glasses is the demand for high
optical non-linearity with reduced cost and a higher damage resistance. Oxide glasses with …

This book describes in detail the main concepts of theoretical spectroscopy of transition
metal and rare-earth ions. It shows how the energy levels of different electron configurations …

We have shown that the broadband near-IR (NIR) fluorescence recently discovered in Bi-
doped glasses is not specific due solely to Bi ions. Glasses doped with different 6p (Bi, Pb) …

Over the past few decades, glass-ceramics doped with transition metals have become
promising materials for the development of active and passive optical functional devices …

The target of taking advantage of the near-infrared light-emission properties of nickel ions in
crystals for the design of novel broadband optical amplifiers requires the identification of …

Absorption and fluorescence spectra of Bi ions in multi-component oxide glasses melted in
air were measured. Absorption bands in the range of 400–1000nm and fluorescence bands …

The emission intensity of Ni^ 2+ at 1200 nm in transparent ZnO-Al_2O_3-SiO_2 glass
ceramics containing ZnAl_2O_4 nanocrystals is improved approximately 8 times by Cr^ 3+ …