Multi-photon absorption upconversion luminescence of a Tb 3+-doped glass excited by an infrared femtosecond laser

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 6883-6888

  Zhang, Songmin ^a   Zhu, Bin ^a   Zhou, Shifeng ^a   Xu, Shiqing ^a   Qiu, Jianrong ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LUMINESCENCE; PHOTONS; PUMPING (LASER); ULTRASHORT PULSES;

MULTIPHOTON ABSORPTIONS; PUMP POWER; VISIBLE UPCONVERSION;

GLASS;

EID: 34249728369     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.006883     Document Type: Article

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