Over the past few decades, glass-ceramics doped with transition metals have become promising materials for the development of active and passive optical functional devices, including a wide variety of commercial applications due to their unique properties. In this Perspective paper, the intrinsic advantages of these composite materials are outlined, and we provide an overview of recent and on-going progress and state-of-the-art knowledge of the main applications: broadband amplifiers, tunable lasers, long persistent phosphors, noninvasive optical temperature sensors, saturable absorbers, high IR emitters, and thermal shock-resistant color filters. Finally, today's challenges and future prospects are exposed to provide guidelines for future research.

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过渡金属作为玻璃陶瓷中的光学活性掺杂剂

在过去的几十年里，掺杂过渡金属的玻璃陶瓷已成为开发有源和无源光学功能器件的有前途的材料，由于其独特的性能，包括广泛的商业应用。在这篇 Perspective 论文中，概述了这些复合材料的内在优势，我们概述了主要应用的近期和正在进行的进展和最先进的知识：宽带放大器、可调谐激光器、长余辉荧光粉、无创光学温度传感器、可饱和吸收器、高红外发射器和抗热震滤色器。最后，暴露了当今的挑战和未来的前景，为未来的研究提供指导。