“…Based on the results obtained from the luminescence intensity of Dy 3+ doped ZANP glass, the optimized concentration of Dy 3+ is 0.5 mol% and this is used for co-doping with Eu 3+ using 0.1, 0.5, 1.0 and 1.5 mol% additions. The initial criterion for energy transfer is the spectral overlap of acceptor (Eu 3+ ) absorption and donor (Dy 3+ ) fluorescence [35,36]. In the present work, the absorption band 7 F 0 → 5 D 2 (465 nm) of Eu 3+ is overlapped with the emission transition 4 F 9/2 → 6 H 15/2 (484 nm) of Dy 3+ ion in visible region of 450-500 nm as shown in Figure 4.…”