Preparation and characterization

of photonic glasses
Dr. D. SREENIVASU
Assistant professor
U C S Saifabad
O U Hyderabad

 Rare earth ion doped TeO2 and GeO2 glasses(1)

for laser materials. Telurite glasses doped
with heavy metal oxides or rare earth oxides
have received great scientific interest
because these oxides can change the optical
and physical properties of the base glass. The
glass optical fibers could efficiently amplify
light signals upto 10,000 times in fiber lasrs.
The active gain medium is a simple mode
optical fiber doped with rare earth elements.

INTERDICIPLINARY
RELAVENCE
Photonic glasses are made using inorganic materials like tellurium
oxide, germanium oxide, boric acid, rare earth oxides and other
metal oxides. All these materials must be having chemical
properties and their mixture when heated to higher temperatures
in the range of 800-1000oC and quenched suddenly to form the
glasses and they are annealed to remove stress and strain inside
the glasses. These glasses are used as fiber guided medium,
optical switches, fiber amplifiers, optical sources and optical
rotators. Therefore the study of these photonic glasses has
interdisciplinary relevance such as physics, chemistry, material
science, optics, communication engineering. The various
properties of these photonic glasses are studied using IR. FT-IR,
DSC, UV-Vis spectroscopy, ESR, AC conductivity studies etc. Thus
thic topic has much interdisciplinary relevance.

Objectives
Preparation of different composition
TeO2, ZnO doped with rare earth
oxides glass samples and quenching
them applying magnetic field.
Study of various properties and also
to study the non linear properties of
prepared glass samples.

Methodology
Preparation of glass samples with different
compositions using melt quenching
technique. While quenching magnetic field
is applied and annealed below the glass
transition temperature.
Study of non linear properties and
spectroscopic properties using various
instrumental techniques and powdered and
polished samples.

 Equipment: Different experimental studies

(FTIR, XRD, SEM, NMR, DSC, conductivity and
Hall Effect) which are available in our
laboratory are performed on these nano
composites to establish their morphological,
thermal, and electrical properties.
Other Infrastructural facilities: Recently
our laboratory procured Photo-elastic
constant instrument to study the mechanical
properties of different materials.