We have made and characterized a new, erbium-doped tellurite glass that has high glass transition temperature. Addition of phosphate is found to increase the phonon energy. The peak emission cross section is 6 x 10(-21) cm(2) at 1537 nm and the fluorescence lifetime of the (4)I(13/2)-(4)I(15/2) transition is 4.1 ms. We have written 2-D channel waveguides in this glass using focused, 45-fs pulses from an amplified Ti:sapphire laser at different laser energies and writing speeds. Migration of atoms towards the periphery of the waveguides occurs, leading to refractive index changes. Channels show waveguiding at 1310 nm which is promising for the fabrication of integrated lasers and broadband amplifiers.
Multicomponent tellurite glasses containing altered concentrations of Er 2 O 3 (ranging from 0 to 1 mol%) were prepared by the standard melt quenching technique. Investigations through energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS), Raman scattering spectroscopy, FTIR spectroscopy, NIR emission studies and dielectric measurement techniques were done to probe their compositional, structural, spectroscopic and dielectric behaviour. The influence of erbium ion concentration on the infrared emission (~1.53 m) of these glasses and their respective lifetimes were measured. From the measured capacitance and dissipation factor, the relative permittivity, dielectric loss and the conductivity were computed; which furnish the dielectric nature of the multicomponent tellurite glasses that depend on the frequency of the applied LCR meter. Assuming the ideal Debye behaviour as substantiated by Cole-Cole plot, an examination of the real and imaginary parts of impedance is performed. The power-law and Cole-Cole parameters were resolved for all the glass samples. From the assessment of the NIR emission analysis and dielectric properties of the glass samples, it is manifested that the Er 3+ ion concentration has played a vital role in tuning the optical and dielectric properties and the 0.5 mol% Er
3+-doped glass is confirmed as the finest composition.
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