Energy transfer in silver and cerium co-doped glass

Abstract

The spectroscopic characterizations of sodium borate glasses codoped with Ce and Ag prepared by melt quench method are done using absorption, excitation and emission spectra. The nonradiative energy transfer between Ag and Ce ions process is observed. With fs-laser irradiation, we formed silver aggregates and studied efficient resonant energy transfer from Ce ions to silver aggregates by analyzing the emission of Ce ions and the absorption of the silver aggregates. © 2011 Published by Elsevier B.V.