Near infrared-emitting Er-and Yb-Er-doped CeF3 nanoparticles with no visible upconversion

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 15904-15910

  Tan, Mei Chee ^a   Kumar, G A ^a   Riman, Richard E ^a  

^a Piscataway   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSFER; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED IMAGING; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LUMINESCENCE; NANOPARTICLES; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING); YTTERBIUM;

INFRARED EMISSIONS; INTENSE EMISSION; INTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; LASER MATERIALS; LUMINESCENCE LIFETIME; LUMINESCENT CENTERS; VISIBLE EMISSIONS; VISIBLE UPCONVERSION;

ERBIUM;

EID: 69949089693     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.015904     Document Type: Article

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