Powerful visible (530-770 nm) luminescence in Yb,Ho:GGG with IR diode pumping

Optics Express

Volumn 10, Issue 16, 2002, Pages 832-839

  Kir'yanov, A V ^a   Aboites, V ^a   Belovolov, A M ^b   Timoshechkin, M I ^b   Belovolov, M I ^b   Damzen, M J ^c   Minassian, A ^c  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ÓPTICA   (Mexico)

^b PROKHOROV GENERAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LUMINESCENCE; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; POSITIVE IONS; RARE EARTH ADDITIONS; TRANSITION METAL ALLOYS;

DIODE PUMPING; DOPED CRYSTALS; EMISSION BAND; VISIBLE EMISSION;

PUMPING (LASER);

EID: 0142132414     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.10.000832     Document Type: Article

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