Optical properties of Nd3+- and Tb3+-doped KPb 2Br5 and RbPb2Br5 with low nonradiative decay

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2117-2129

  Rademaker, Katja ^a,b   Krupke, William F ^a   Page, Ralph H ^a   Payne, Stephen A ^a   Petermann, Klaus ^b   Huber, Guenter ^b   Yelisseyev, Alexander P ^c   Isaenko, Ludmila I ^c   Roy, Utpal N ^d   Burger, Arnold ^d   Mandal, Krishna C ^e   Nitsch, Karel ^f  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c SOBOLEV INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

^d FISK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e EIC LABORATORIES INC   (United States)

^f INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL GROWTH; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT EMISSION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHONONS; POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS; PROBABILITY; RAMAN SCATTERING; REFRACTIVE INDEX; RUBIDIUM COMPOUNDS;

LONG WAVELENGTH INFRARED LASERS; POTASSIUM LEAD BROMIDE CRYSTALS; RADIATIVE TRANSITION PROBABILITIES; RUBIDIUM LEAD BROMIDE CRYSTALS;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 19944429642     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.21.002117     Document Type: Article

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