Since the invention and further development of lasers in the 1960s, photonics has grown
into a field that permeates virtually every aspect of modern life. As photonics deals with the …

Glass containing optically active nanoparticles have been manufactured for centuries.
However, only in the early 1900s, the invention of ultramicroscope and development of Mie …

For years, scientists have been looking for different techniques to make glasses perfect: fully
amorphous and ideally homogeneous. Meanwhile, recent advances in the development of …

The first biophotonic composite fiber with green persistent luminescence is reported. The
composites were drawn from preforms prepared by remelting a bioactive glass with …

The glass formula of 20Li 2 O+ 10AlF 3+ 2.5 CaF 2+(66.5-x) P 2 O 5+ xGd 2 O 3+ 1Eu 2 O 3
(PLACEu 1 Gd x), where x= 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 mol% have been prepared by conventional melt …

The methods to directly introduce crystals of known chemistry, size, and optical properties
into a glass matrix are useful to circumvent some limitations related to the control of the …

In the partial-filling hot embossing process (PFHE), the stress distribution and geometry of a
glass micro-lens influence its optical performance. The deformation behavior of glass is very …

New oxyfluorophosphate glass-based composites which exhibit not only green
upconversion under 980 nm pumping but also green persistent luminescence (PeL) after …

Abstract The fabrication of Yb 3+, Tm 3+ co-doped oxyfluorophosphate glass-based
composites, with green persistent luminescence after being charged with near-infrared light …

Nanosized hydrated YbPO4· n H2O powders were prepared by precipitation from aqueous
solutions. It is shown that the structure, optical properties, and size of the raw particles can …