Tellurite glasses handbook : physical properties and data This textbook geared for junior and senior level materials science courses within engineering and other appropriate departments is produced in part to address the perceived gap among specialists like physicists chemists and material scientists in their understanding of the properties of tellurite glasses. Four groups of these properties elastic and anelastic thermal electrical and optical have received most attention This handbook discusses the physical constants and properties of the unique non crystalline solids known as tellurite glasses. It includes rigid data from experiments conducted over the last 60 years and presents their elastic anelastic optical electrical and thermal properties. This second edition covers advances in development and applications such as new photonics sensing and optics applications. It includes new glass forming systems thermal elastic relaxation electrical and optical properties together with new current and potential applications including nanocomposites optical devices and fibers photonics and communication