Permanent photoreduction of Sm3+ to Sm2+ inside a sodium aluminoborate glass by an infrared femtosecond pulsed laser

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 10-12

  Qiu, Jianrong ^a   Miura, K ^a   Suzuki, T ^a   Mitsuyu, T ^a   Hirao, K ^b  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; IRRADIATION; LASER PULSES; LIGHT EMISSION; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; REDUCTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTING GLASS; SPECTROPHOTOMETERS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

INFRARED FEMTOSECOND PULSED LASER; LASER IRRADIATION; PHOTOREDUCTION; SODIUM ALUMINOBORATE GLASS;

SAMARIUM;

EID: 0033521289     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.123117     Document Type: Article

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