Measu
rements of the optical p
rope
rties of E
r3+ ions in st
rontium ba
rium niobate glass and glass ce
ramics have been ca
rried out. The glasses have been fab
ricated using a melt-quenching method, and the glass ce
ramic samples have been obtained f
rom the glass p
recu
rso
r by a the
rmal t
reatment. The ce
ramic samples fo
rmed by a glassy phase, and a c
rystalline phase contains nanoc
rystals of S
r1−xBa
xNb
2O
6 (SBN) doped with E
r3+ ions with a mean size of
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rmed with XRD. G
reen up-conve
rsion emission has been obtained unde
r excitation at 800 nm, and the tempo
ral evolution of this emission has been
repo
rted with the pu
rpose of dete
rmining the involved up-conve
rsion mechanism. These optical measu
res have confi
rmed that the E
r3+ ions have been inco
rpo
rated into the SBN mat
rix, afte
r a the
rmal t
reatment, which p
roduced an inc
rement of the up-conve
rsion efficiency.