Research Article

Optical Properties of Malachite Green Dye Doped SiO2 Glasses: Effect of Transition Metal (Fe-I) Used as a Codopant

Figure 8

(a) Spectral overlap between a5P3 a5D4 emission band of Fe-I and S0 S1 MG absorbance band. (b) Schematic representation of energy transfer from Fe-I to MG dye in SiO2 glass under 445 nm excitation.
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