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Effect of change in CaO concentration on spectroscopic properties of Tm3+ ions in phosphate glasses

TALAM SATYANARAYANA1, TILAK MUKHERJEE2, GUNNAM NAGARJUNA3

Affiliation

  1. Department of Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Lakireddy Bali Reddy College of Engineering (Autonomous), Mylavaram – 521 230, Andhra Pradesh, India,
  2. Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Lakireddy Bali Reddy College of Engineering (Autonomous), Mylavaram – 521 230, Andhra Pradesh, India,
  3. Department of Chemistry, S.R.R. & C.V.R. Govt. College, Vijayawada -520004, Krishna, Andhra Pradesh., India.

Abstract

Glasses of particular composition 50 P2O5-(25-x) CaO-22 Na2O-3 K2O: x Tm2O3 (0.2  x  1.0 mol %) were prepared using conventional melt quenching. The samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The characterization studies reveal that the samples have amorphous nature. Further, spectroscopic investigations viz., optical absorption and fluorescence for all samples have been carried out in visible and NIR regions at room temperature. The absorption spectra has exhibited six bands and corresponding transitions have assigned. Similarly, the emission spectra has exhibited six bands in visible region when excited at 456 nm; two bands in NIR region excited at 698 nm. The reasons for variations in intensities and spectral positions of all bands have been discussed in detail with increase in concentration of thulium ions in addition to their structural changes..

Keywords

Tm3+ glasses; X-ray diffraction; Luminescence, Optical properties.

Submitted at: July 29, 2015
Accepted at: Sept. 29, 2016

Citation

TALAM SATYANARAYANA, TILAK MUKHERJEE, GUNNAM NAGARJUNA, Effect of change in CaO concentration on spectroscopic properties of Tm3+ ions in phosphate glasses, Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials Vol. 18, Iss. 9-10, pp. 827-831 (2016)