Optical properties of phosphate glasses co-doped with Yb3+ and silver nanoparticles

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/23/12/124214

Abstract We report the fabrication and spectroscopic characterization of Yb³⁺-doped phosphate glass, also containing silver nitrate. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) provides the evidence of the formation of silver nano-particles (SNPs), which are formed as a consequence of melting and thermal decomposition of AgNO₃. Absorption spectra of the samples in the visible-to-near-infrared spectral range reveal the presence of bands centered at 410 nm associated with the SNP-plasmon resonance, and at 976 nm due to the Yb³⁺. Under 916-nm laser-diode pumping, the effect of the SNP reflects that: i) the fluorescence in the 950-nm–1150-nm spectral range is strongly enhanced (～30 times), while the fluorescence decay time associated with the ²F_5/2→F_7/2 transition of Yb³⁺ increases 25%, and ii) the basic lasing properties (saturation pumping intensity, the emission and absorption cross sections) are substantially improved.

Keywords: rare earths phosphate glasses silver nanoparticles

Received: 24 April 2014
Revised: 01 July 2014
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PACS:	42.70.-a	(Optical materials)
	78.20.-e	(Optical properties of bulk materials and thin films)
	81.05.Kf	(Glasses (including metallic glasses))

Fund: Lucio M J L was financially supported by the CONACyT (Grant No. CB-2009-136186-F).

Corresponding Authors: M. A. Martinez
E-mail: mamg@cio.mx

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M. A. Vallejo H., M. A. Martinez G., A. V. Kiryanov, J. L. Lucio M. Optical properties of phosphate glasses co-doped with Yb³⁺ and silver nanoparticles 2014 Chin. Phys. B 23 124214


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