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