High-temperature UV-VIS-NIR absorption and emission spectroscopy of soda-lime-silica glasses doped with Nd2O3
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Absorption spectra were recorded from a glass with the basic composition 16Na2O ∙ 10CaO ∙ 74SiO2 doped with 4 wt% Nd2O3 at temperatures in the range from 25 to 1400°C. The effective width of the observed absorption peaks increased with increasing temperature, while the peak positions remained nearly constant. Some absorption coefficients decreased with temperature while that at a wavelength of 657 nm increased notably. Emission spectra were recorded from glass melts exhibiting a temperature gradient at the surface (cold surface). The spectra showed distinguished minima at those wavelengths where the absorption maxima occurred. Numerical simulation of the emission spectra assuming a constant temperature gradient at the surface is in agreement with the experimental spectra.