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Zhuo Wang 王卓 ¹, Bo Zhang 张博 ¹, Dezhi Tan 谭德志 ², Jianrong Qiu 邱建荣 ¹ ³

¹ State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, and College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
中国浙江浙江大学光电科学与工程学院现代光学仪器国家重点实验室
² Zhejiang Lab, Hangzhou 311100, China
中国杭州之江实验室
³ CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-intense Laser Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
中国上海中国科学院超强激光科学卓越创新中心

https://doi.org/10.29026/oea.2023.220008

https://www.oejournal.org/article/doi/10.29026/oea.2023.220008

Opto-Electronic Advances, 31 August 2022

Abstract

Long-term optical data storage (ODS) technology is essential to break the bottleneck of high energy consumption for information storage in the current era of big data. Here, ODS with an ultralong lifetime of 2107 years is attained with single ultrafast laser pulse induced reduction of Eu3+ ions and tailoring of optical properties inside the Eu-doped aluminosilicate glasses.

We demonstrate that the induced local modifications in the glass can stand against the temperature of up to 970 K and strong ultraviolet light irradiation with the power density of 100 kW/cm2. Furthermore, the active ions of Eu2+ exhibit strong and broadband emission with the full width at half maximum reaching 190 nm, and the photoluminescence (PL) is flexibly tunable in the whole visible region by regulating the alkaline earth metal ions in the glasses. The developed technology and materials will be of great significance in photonic applications such as long-term ODS.

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