Saturation effects in the upconversion efficiency of Er-doped fluorozirconate glasses

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Volumn 22, Issue 15, 2010, Pages

  Henke, B ^a   Pientka, F ^a   Johnson, J A ^b   Ahrens, B ^c   Miclea, P T ^a,c   Schweizer, S ^a,c  

^a FRAUNHOFER CENTER FOR SILICON PHOTOVOLTAICS CSP   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE SPACE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ER-DOPED; ERBIUM CONCENTRATIONS; ERBIUM DOPED; EXCITATION POWER; EXCITATION POWER DEPENDENCE; FLUORESCENCE INTENSITIES; FLUOROZIRCONATE GLASS; NEAR INFRARED; OPTICAL ABSORPTION; SATURATION EFFECTS; THREE-PHOTON; TWO PHOTON; UP-CONVERSION EFFICIENCY;

DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; ERBIUM; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; GLASS; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; PHOTONS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 77950585803     PISSN: 09538984     EISSN: 1361648X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/22/15/155107     Document Type: Article

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