Optical glasses are used in numerous applications, such as optical windows, individual lenses, photographic lenses, microscopes, and telescopes. 1 Optical imaging systems use these optical glasses to refract the light rays emitted from a point on the object plane such that the rays are focused at a single point on the image plane. 1 Among the various optical glasses, glasses with high refractive index play a significant role in the field of optical design. They can reduce spherical aberrations and shrink the dimensions of lens systems. 2 Generally, heavy-metal oxides, such as PbO, Bi 2 O 3 , and TeO 2 , are required to achieve a high refractive index, but these p-block heavy-metal oxides result in colored glasses. 3 Since transparency in the visible range is an important property of optical glass, colorless glasses with high refractive index are attractive materials. The refractive index depends on the wavelength of the light. Therefore, incident lights are separated for each wavelength, and this phenomenon is known as dispersion. Low-dispersion glasses can be utilized to reduce chromatic aberrations. 2 The combination of a high refractive index and low dispersion allows for an efficient color correction with small dimensions. 4 Recently, Masuno et al. have reported that La 2 O 3 -Nb 2 O 5 binary glasses exhibit excellent optical properties, such as lack of color in the visible region, wide transparency in