The present investigation is an attempt to address the effect of P 2 O 5 on the optical properties, cross link density (n c ) as well as theoretical parameters like Poisson's ratio and bulk modulus for (25-x)%CaO-x%P 2 O 5 -60%SiO 2 -5%B 2 O 3 -10%ZnO (x = 5, 10, 15, 20) novel sol-gel glasses. The optical basicity, oxide polarisability, direct/indirect band gaps and theoretical elastic constants have been calculated for all the glasses. In addition to this, the cross-link density, average force stretching constant and number of network bonds per unit volume (n b ) have been calculated. The values of optical basicity and polarisabilty have allowed the same trend for all these glasses. The cross-link density decreases when the P 2 O 5 content increases from 5 to 20 %.
Graphical Abstract0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 CP5 CP10 CP15 CP20 Indirect /direct band gap and Urbach energy (in eV)
Glass samples
Eg(Ind) Eg(Dir) EuIndirect/Direct band gap and Urbach energy for all the samples.