We experimentally verify that surface plasmon (SP) enhances the photoluminescence (PL) of visible light from Tb3 -doped 60SiO2-20Al2O3-20CaF2:0.3Tb3 , 20Yb3 glass ceramics by using electron beam lithography to fabricate silver nanoparticles on the surface of the glass ceramics. Numerical calculation for the SP enhancement spectroscopy is achieved by using the finite-difference time-domain algorithm. A PL enhancement of Tb3 by as much as 1.6 times is observed. The PL enhancement is mainly due to the coupling of excitation from 7F6 to 5D4 transition dipole of Tb3 ion with SP mode induced from the silver nanoparticles.