Active Mid-IR emissions from rare-earth doped tellurite glass ceramics for bio applications

Author

Morea, R. ; Fernandez, T.T. ; Miguel, A. ; Hernandez, M. ; Ulloa, J.M. ; Fernandez, J. ; Balda, R. ; Solis, Javier ; Gonzalo, J.

Author_Institution

Laser Process. Group, Inst. de Opt., Madrid, Spain

fYear

2014

fDate

6-10 July 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

Intense emission peaking at 2.18 μm was successfully obtained from erbium upon carefully designed engineering of its glass host both thermally and spectroscopically. Highly localized crystallization of erbium sites is verified by micro Raman and micro-PL along with TEM characterizations.

Keywords

Raman spectra; crystallisation; erbium compounds; glass ceramics; photoluminescence; tellurium compounds; transmission electron microscopy; zinc compounds; TEM; TeO₂-ZnO-ZnF₂-ErF₃; active mid-IR emissions; bio applications; erbium sites; glass host; intense emission peaking; localized crystallization; microRaman analysis; microphotoluminescence; rare-earth doped tellurite glass ceramics; spectroscopic analysis; thermal engineering; wavelength 2.18 mum; Biomedical optical imaging; Ceramics; Crystallization; Glass; Integrated optics; Nanocrystals; Waveguide lasers; amorphous materials; photoluminescence; rare-earth-doped materials;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2014 16th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Graz

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2014.6876434

Filename

6876434