Cooperative upconversion and energy transfer of new high Er3+- and Yb3+-Er3+-doped phosphate glasses

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 833-839

  Hwang, Bor Chyuan ^a   Jiang, Shibin ^a   Luo, Tao ^a,b   Watson, Jason ^a   Sorbello, Gino ^a,c   Peyghambarian, Nasser ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b NP Photonic Technologies LLC   (United States)

^c POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSFER; ERBIUM; OPTICAL PUMPING; PHOSPHATES; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; YTTERBIUM;

PHOSPHATE GLASSES;

SEMICONDUCTING GLASS;

EID: 0034382507     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.17.000833     Document Type: Article

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