Energy transfer processes in highly rare-earth-doped planar YAG waveguides

Spectroscopy Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 271-292

  Malinowski, M ^a,b   Nakielska, M ^a,b   Piramidowicz, R ^a   Sarnecki, J ^b  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b Research Group of Integrated Circuits and System Design   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cross relaxation; Energy transfer; Planar waveguide; Rare earth doped YAG; Upconversion

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947618982     PISSN: 00387010     EISSN: 15322289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00387010701247423     Document Type: Article

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