Understanding the mechanism of visible luminescence enhancement from rare earth doped glasses containing metallic nanoparticles (NPs) is the challenging issue. The photoluminescence (PL) spectra of Er3+: Au-doped tellurite glass is investigated for different concentration of gold NPs. A series of glasses with composition (70-x) TeO2-30 ZnO-0.5 Er2O3x Au where x = (0.1, 0.3, 0.5 mol%) are prepared by melt-quenching method. The thermal parameters such as the glass transition (Tg), crystallization temperature (Tc) and melting temperature (Tm) are determined using DTA thermogram. PL spectra exhibit two distinct peaks at 493nm and 550nm which are assigned to the2H11/2-4I15/2and4S3/2-4I15/2transition respectively. The influence of gold NPs in enhancing the luminescence intensity under the 360nm excitation wavelength is observed understood.
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