Observation of anti-stokes fluorescence cooling in thulium-doped glass

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 17, 2000, Pages 3600-3603

  Hoyt, C W ^a   Sheik Bahae, M ^a   Epstein, R I ^b   Edwards, B C ^b   Anderson, J E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; COOLING; FLUORESCENCE; GROUND STATE; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETERS; LASER APPLICATIONS; PHOTONS; POSITIVE IONS; TEMPERATURE; THULIUM; ZIRCONIUM COMPOUNDS;

ANTI STOKES FLUORESCENCE COOLING; PUMP EXCITATION; THULIUM DOPED SOLID;

GLASS;

EID: 0034293854     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.3600     Document Type: Article

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