A simple method to measure the lifetime of excited levels of rare earth ions: Application to erbium ions in fluorophosphate glasses

Optical Materials

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 209-215

  Brunel, Marc ^a   Vallet, Marc ^a   Bretenaker, Fabien ^a   Le Floch, Albert ^a   Adam, Jean Luc ^b   Duhamel Henry, Nathalie ^b   Allain, Jean Yves ^c  

^a URA CNRS 1202   (France)

^b Campus de Beaulieu   (France)

^c ORANGE LABS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; IONS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL PUMPING; PHOSPHATES; RARE EARTHS; SPECTROSCOPY;

FLUORESCENCE DECAY; FLUOROPHOSPHATE GLASS; PUMP BEAM INTENSITY; RARE EARTH IONS; SINUSOIDAL MODULATION;

OPTICAL GLASS;

EID: 0030102572     PISSN: 09253467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0925-3467(95)00060-7     Document Type: Article

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