Blue upconversion luminescence generation in Ce3+:Gd 2SiO5 crystals by infrared femtosecond laser irradiation

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1899-1904

  Dong, Yongjun ^a,b   Xu, Jun ^a   Zhou, Guoqing ^a   Zhao, Guangjun ^a   Jie, Mingyin ^a   Yang, LuYun ^a   Su, Liangbi ^a   Qiu, Jianrong ^a   Feng, Weiwei ^a   Lin, Lihuang ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT EMISSION; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

EXCITATION LASERS; FLUORESCENCE EMISSION; LUMINESCENCE GENERATION;

CERIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 33644764908     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.001899     Document Type: Article

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