“…The development of rare earth (RE 3+ ) ions doped glasses with good thermal, mechanical and chemical durability are highly essential for the design of high performance lasers, optical amplifiers and white light emitting diodes (LEDs) [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]. Different multi-component borate glasses have been considered for technological applications in many areas and among them, the lithium zinc borosilicate (LZBS) glasses have attracted the researchers for the development of visible lasers and amplifiers due to their good optical transmission, low phonon energy, low glass transition temperature, high refractive index, high dielectric constant and high thermal expansion coefficient [7, 8, 9, 10].…”