Chapter 1 Synthesis and characterizationof rare earth complex doped polymers 1.1 Synthesis of rare earth complex doped polymer 1.2 Uniformity and thermal stability of rare earth complex doped polymer 1.2.1 X-ray diffraction of rare earth complex doped 1.2.2 Near-field scanning analysis of rare earth complex doped 1.2.3 Thermal properties of rare earth complex doped PMMAChapter 2 Spectroscopic properties of rare earth complex doped PMMA and their Judd-Ofelt treatment 2.1 The theory of spectroscopic analysis 2.1.1 Energy level analysis and nephelauxetic effect of rare earth complexes 2.1.2 Judd-Ofelt Theory 2.2 Spectroscopic analysis of Nd��DBM��3Phen and Nd��DBM��3 ��TPPO��2 in PMMA 2.2.1 Energy level analysis and nephelauxetic effect of Nd��DBM��3Phen and Nd��DBM��3 ��TPPO��2 in MMA and 2.2.2 Radiative properties of Nd��DBM��3Phen and Nd��DBM��3 ��TPPO��2 doped PMMA 2.3 Spectroscopic analysis of Eu complexes in PMMA 2.3.1 Fluorescence of Eu complexes in PMMA 2.3.2 Radiative properties of Eu complexes in PMMA 2.4 Spectroscopic analysis of Er complexes in PMMA 2.4.1 Fluorescence of Er complexes in PMMA 2.4.2 Energy level analysis and nephelauxetic effect of Er��DBM��3 ��TPPO��2 in PMMA 2.4.3 Radiative properties of Er��DBM��3 ��TPPO��2 doped PMMA 2.5 Spectroscopic analysis of Pr complexes in PMMA 2.5.1 Fluorescence of Pr complexes in PMMA 2.5:2 Energy level analysis and Nephelauxetic effect of Pr��DBM��3Phen and Pr��DBM��3 ��TPPO��2 in PMMA 2.5.3 Radiative properties of Pr��DBM��3 ��TPPO��2 doped PMMA 2.6 Spectroscopic analysis of Sm complexes in PMMA 2.6.1 Fluorescent analysis of Sm complexes in MMA 2.6.2 Energy level analysis and nephelauxetic effect of Sm��TTA��a ��TPPO��2 in MMA and PMMA 2.6.3 Radiative properties of Sm��DBM��a ��TPPO��2 in MMA and PMMAChapter 3 Rectification of excitation with bathochromic shift during emission measurement of Eu complexes 3.1 Bathochromic shift during fluorescence measurement 3.2 Theoretical model for treatment of Bathochromic shift 3.3 Prediction of best exciting wavelength for fluorescence measurementChapter 4 Fluorescence enhancing of rare earth complexes in PMMA 4.1 Fluorescence enhancement of Eu��DBM��3Phen codoped with the other rare earth complexes in PMMA 4.2 Fluorescence enhancement of Sm��DBM��3Phen codoped with other rare earth complexes in PMMA 4.3 Model for luminescence enhancement in PMMA codoped with two kinds of rare earth complexes 4.3.1 Intra-molecular energy transfer within each complex 4.3.2 Inter-molecular energy transfer between complexes 4.3.3 Quantitative model for luminescence enhancement of Eux Tby-PMMAChapter 5 Effects of synergetic ligands on radiative properties of Eu��TTA��3 nL doped PMMA and LB films 5.1 7.1 J-aggregates of rare earth complexes formed on the surface of silver nanoparticles 7.2 Effects of Ag colloidal nanoparticles on luminescent properties of Eu�� l]I�� -diketone 7.3 Nanocomposite composed of Eu��TTA��3Bipy/Tb��TTA��3Bipy/Silver NanoparticlesChapter 8 Modulation in luminescence of rare earth complexes doped in photo-responsive polymer 8.1 Photo-induced optical anisotropy and polarized emission of europium complex doped azobenzene polymer film 8.2 Reversible modulation in fluorescence intensity of a single vesicle composed of diblock azo-copolymer and Eu ��DBM�� 3 PhenChapter 9 Polymer optical fibers doped with rare earth complexes 9.1 Gradient refractive index distribution of POF 9.1.1 Qualitative description of interfacial-gel polymerization 9.1.2 Diffusion process given by free volume theory 9.1.3 Gradient refractive index distribution of undoped POF~ 9.1.4 Gradient refractive index distribution of rare earth complex doped POF 9.2 Design and fabrication of SCPOF preform doped with rare earth complexes 9.3 Optical amplification of rare earth complexes doped SI POFPostscriptReferences