• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 13, Issue 10, 101602 (2015)
Weichuan Gao, Yu Tong, Yunxia Yang, and Guorong Chen*
Author Affiliations
  • Key Laboratory for Ultrafine Materials of Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
  • show less
    DOI: 10.3788/COL201513.101602 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Weichuan Gao, Yu Tong, Yunxia Yang, Guorong Chen, "Monochromic orange emission of Pr3+ ions in phosphate glass," Chin. Opt. Lett. 13, 101602 (2015) Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Zinc strontium phosphate glasses doped with different trivalent praseodymium ion (Pr3+) concentrations are presented and their photoluminescence properties are investigated upon 442 nm excitation. With the Pr3+ concentration decreasing, the orange emission of Pr3+ (D21HJ3) is enhanced steadily at the cost of its blue emission (P1,03H43). Monochromic orange emission of Pr3+ ions is obtained when the Pr3+ doping is reduced to 0.05 mol.%. The mechanism controlling the monochromatic characteristic of Pr3+ emissions is supposed to be associated with the phonon-aided nonradiative relaxation process of Pr3+: Math input error