Energy transfer in silver and cerium co-doped glass

The spectroscopic characterizations of sodium borate glasses codoped with Ce3+ and Ag+ prepared by melt quench method are done using absorption, excitation and emission spectra. The nonradiative energy transfer between Ag+ and Ce3+ ions process is observed. With fs-laser irradiation, we formed silver aggregates and studied efficient resonant energy transfer from Ce3+ ions to silver aggregates by analyzing the emission of Ce3+ ions and the absorption of the silver aggregates.