“…The lower the symmetry in the vicinity of Sm 3+ ion, the higher will be the value of the Ω 2 parameter. The value of the Ω 2 parameter in the SFB glass is found higher than the earlier reports [11,22,26,27] and lower than Cao-Sb 2 O 3 -B 2 O 3 [28] and borate [29] glasses. A comparison of J-O intensity parameters for different glasses is presented in Table 4.…”