“…From the absorption spectrum, six peaks are identified at 752, 800, 901, 1088, 1268 and 1673 nm corresponding to the 6 H 15/2 → 6 F 3/2 , 6 F 5/2 , 6 F 7/2 , 6 F 9/2 , 6 F 11/2 and 6 H 11/2 transitions respectively. The assignment of these absorption transitions has been done according to the earlier reports of Dy 3+ ions in different glasses [15][16][17][18][19][20]. The observed band positions along with their assignments for the Dy 1.0 :LBS glass are represented in Table 3.…”