Photoinduced nonlinear optical effects in the Pr doped BiB3O6 glass nanoparticles incorporated into the polymer matrices

Microwave assisted sol–gel synthesis of tetragonal zirconia nanoparticles

“…ZrO 2 is used as toughening ceramics in thighbone and oral planting [10]. Recently it has been reported that the oxide nanoparticles are promising for photonics, however principal role from technological point of view play their mono-dispersion and appropriate contact with the surrounding medium [11].…”

Optically induced effects in nano-crystallized PbO–Sb2O3–B2O3:Pr2O3 glasses

“…However, Sb 2 O 3 is an incipient glass network former and as such does not readily form the glass; hence to facilitate the glass formation, mixing of some proportion of a strong glass former like B 2 O 3 is necessary. Moreover, following the relatively high values of local polarizabilities, one can expect that glasses containing borate may also be of particular interest for the photo-induced nonlinear optics [7].…”

“…Some recent studies on PIB effects of rare earth mixed crystalline materials are available in the literature [7]. The crystallization of especially antimony oxide based glasses is of more interesting since during the crystallization, there exists a possibility for oxidation of a part of Sb 3+ ions and transforming it to Sb 5+ state.…”

Spectroscopic and dielectric studies of meso-tetrakis(p-sulfonatophenyl) porphyrin doped hybrid borate glasses

“…Glasses like borate (B 2 O 3 ), lead-tin-fluoro phosphate (PbF 2 -SnF 2 -SnO-P 2 O 5 ) are the ideal low melting glasses and it is possible to integrate organic chromophores into these glasses without any decomposition [7][8][9]. Borate glasses are particularly interested due to presence of large number of trapping levels and show enhanced photo induced nonlinear optical effects [10,11]. It has been found that trapping of organic dyes in the rigid glassy network increase the longevity of the triplet state with significant population [12].…”