Blue energy upconversion emission in thulium-doped SiO2-P2O5 channel waveguides excited at 1.064 μm

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1647-1650

  Messias, D N ^a   Vermelho, M V D ^a   De Araujo, M T ^a   Gouveia Neto, A S ^a   Aitchison, J Stewart ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ALAGOAS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Frequency conversion; Glass; Integrated optics; Laser; Phosphorus compounds; Rare earth compounds; Spectroscopy; Waveguides

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); INTEGRATED OPTICS; LIGHT EMISSION; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL GLASS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SILICA;

CHANNEL WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0036902019     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2002.805108     Document Type: Article

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