The glass materials have promoted many scientific, artistic and cultural advancements in the past few hundred years with their unparalleled multi-functional capabilities. Glass optical fibers have enabled the optical communications revolution, which are the backbone of the Internet. Glasses are used for TV, automobile, as well as our smart phones, which completely changed our lives. Glasses are the gain media for fiber lases and high pulse energy solid-state lasers. A brief review of glasses for photonic applications will be presented by Shibin Jiang, AdValue Photonics, Chair of Technical Committee TC20 : Photonic glasses and optical fibers, International Commission on Glass (ICG).
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