Optical Absorption and Fluorescence Spectral Analysis of Nd 3 + Doped Bismuth Boro - Silicate Glasses

Glasses having compositions 20B2O3.(79.5-x) Bi2O3.xSiO2 (10 ≤ x ≤ 40, mol%) doped with 0.5 mol% of Nd ions were prepared by melt quench technique. The amorphous nature of the glasses was confirmed by X-ray diffraction studies. The spectroscopic properties of Nd ions in borate bismuth silicate glasses as a function of bismuth oxide were investigated using optical absorption and fluorescence spectra. The Judd-Ofelt theory has been employed to calculate transitions probability from the data of absorption cross-section of several f-f transitions. The intensity parameters Ω2, Ω4, and Ω6 are determined by applying least square analysis method. The variation of Ω2 and Ω6 with Bi2O3 content has been attributed to changes in the asymmetry of the ligand field at the rare earth ion site and to the changes in the rare earth oxygen (RE-O) covalency. The variation of Ω4 with Bi2O3 content has been attributed to rigidity of the samples. Using the Judd Ofelt intensity parameters the other radiative properties like radiative transition probability, radiative life time, branching ratio and the stimulated emission cross-sections of prepared BBSN glasses have been calculated. The main fluorescence transition 4F3/2→ 4I11/2 of Nd 3+ ion has been investigated as a function of Bi2O3 in host glass.