Lanthanide materials for laser and luminescent device applications

In recent years optically active glasses offer a broad range of applications; the functionally can be modified by appropriate doping. The design and development of optical devices such as solid state lasers optical fiber amplifiers optical storage materials light converters sensors phosphors acousto-optic modifiers and 3D waveguides etc. require a detailed spectroscopic study of the optical properties such as emission peak wavelength bandwidth emission cross section phonon energies etc. In view of the key role of lanthanide spectroscopy in science and technology especially in lasers fiber amplifiers white light phosphors etc. the present book therefore focuses on to study the optical and fluorescence properties of lanthanide-doped oxide glasses.