Estudo das propriedades térmicas, ópticas e estruturais de vidros fosfato de silício dopados com érbio e prata para aplicação em telecomunicação

Abstract

Phosphate glasses are technologically important materials due to their physical and chemical properties and can be applied in optical systems by co-doping with rare earth ions and metallic nanoparticles. In this work the production by melting and quenching technique and characterization of phosphate silica glasses doped with trioxide erbium and / or silver nitrate are shown, so that can checked the influence of these dopants, when added to the host matrix, in thermal, optical and structural properties. The samples were subjected to heat treatment and the characterization techniques: Density, Linear Refractive Index (LRI), Differential Thermal Analysis (DTA), optical absorption (OA), steady state photoluminescence (PL) and Time Resolved Photoluminescence (TRPL), where through them and Judd-Ofelt calculations, promising features of these glasses could be mapped for technological applications, especially in telecommunication: data transmission by optical fibers.