Intense green upconversion emission in Tb3+/Yb3+ codoped alumino-germano-silicate optical fibers

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1671-1675

  Lin, Aoxiang ^a,c   Liu, Xueming ^a   Watekar, Pramod R ^b   Guo, Haitao ^a   Peng, Bo ^a   Wei, Wei ^a   Lu, Min ^a   Han, Won Taek ^b   Toulouse, Jean ^c  

^a XI AN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND PRECISION MECHANICS   (China)

^b Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

^c LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSFER; IONS; LASER EXCITATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL GLASS; SILICATES;

CONCENTRATION QUENCHING EFFECT; CONCENTRATION RATIO; COOPERATIVE ENERGY TRANSFERS; DIRECT EXCITATION; ENERGY TRANSFER UPCONVERSION; GERMANO-SILICATE OPTICAL GLASS FIBERS; GREEN EMISSIONS; GREEN UPCONVERSION;

YTTERBIUM;

EID: 77949827540     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.001671     Document Type: Article

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