Photonic engineering of superbroadband near-infrared emission in nanoglass composites containing hybrid metal and dielectric nanocrystals

Zhigang Gao; Haibo Zhu; Bochao Sun; Yingke Ji; Xiaosong Lu; Hao Tian; Jing Ren; Shu Guo; Jianzhong Zhang; Jun Yang; Xiangeng Meng; Katsuhisa Tanaka

doi:10.1364/PRJ.379662

Photonics Research, Volume. 8, Issue 5, 698(2020)

Photonic engineering of superbroadband near-infrared emission in nanoglass composites containing hybrid metal and dielectric nanocrystals

Zhigang Gao^1,2, Haibo Zhu¹, Bochao Sun¹, Yingke Ji¹, Xiaosong Lu¹, Hao Tian¹, Jing Ren^1,6、*, Shu Guo³, Jianzhong Zhang^1,7、*, Jun Yang^1,4,8、*, Xiangeng Meng⁵, and Katsuhisa Tanaka²

Author Affiliations

¹Key Laboratory of In-fiber Integrated Optics, Ministry of Education, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China

²Department of Material Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan

³Center of Analysis and Measurement, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China

⁴School of Information Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510008, China

⁵Key Laboratory of Processing and Testing Technology of Glass & Functional Ceramics of Shandong Province, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Jinan 250353, China

⁶e-mail: ren.jing@hrbeu.edu.cn

⁷e-mail: zhangjianzhong@hrbeu.edu.cn

⁸e-mail: yangj@gdut.edu.cn

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Paper Information

Category: Optical and Photonic Materials

Received: Oct. 3, 2019

Accepted: Mar. 6, 2020

Published Online: Apr. 23, 2020

The Author Email: Jing Ren (ren.jing@hrbeu.edu.cn), Jianzhong Zhang (zhangjianzhong@hrbeu.edu.cn), Jun Yang (yangj@gdut.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.379662

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