Seminar Announcement: Subhabrata Ghosh

Data pubblicazione: 22-feb-2016 8.10.42

Announcement

Friday, 19 February 2016, 15:00

Sala Grande Palazzina B via alla Cascata 56/C

"Eu-doped SiO₂-HfO₂-ZnO ternary waveguides: A hybrid glass-ceramic for integrated optics"

Subhabrata Ghosh

Department of Physics, Indian Institue of Technology Kharagpur

Kharagpur-721302, West Bengal, India

ghoshsubhabrata13@phy.iitkgp.ernet.in

Abstract

We present on sol-gel fabrication and characterization of low-loss Eu-doped 70 SiO₂ - (30 − x) HfO₂ - x ZnO (x = 2, 5, 7 and 10 mol %) ternary glass-ceramic planar waveguides by dip-coating technique. Transmission electron microscopy and grazing incident X-ray diffraction experiments confirm the controlled growth of ZnO nanocrystals, encapsulated by an amorphous medium, with an average size of 3 nm to 25 nm, with an increase of ZnO concentration from x = 2 mol % to 10 mol % respectively, in the SiO₂-HfO₂ composite matrix. The effect of crystallization on the local environment of Eu-ions, within the ZnO nanocrystals embedded glass-ceramic matrix, is studied by photoluminescence spectra (PL), wherein an intense mixed valence state (divalent as well as trivalent) emission of Eu-ion is observed. The existence of Eu²⁺ and Eu³⁺ in the SiO₂-HfO₂-ZnO ternary matrix is confirmed by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Importantly, Eu^{2+, 3+} doped, ZnO nanocrystals embedded ternary waveguides exhibited low-propagation losses (0.3 ± 0.2 dB/cm at 632.8 nm) and optical transparency in the visible region of electromagnetic spectrum, which makes the ZnO embedded SiO₂-HfO₂-ZnO ternary waveguides a viable candidate for the development of on-chip, active, integrated optic devices.

This seminar will give an overview of our results obtained recently. It concerns materials for compact waveguide lasers as well as on-chip integrated optic devices.

The talk will also give the actual research perspectives on the topic.

Keywords: Rare earth; Glass-ceramic; Integrated optics.