Broadband NIR photoluminescence from Bidoped Ba2P 2O7 crystals: Insights into the nature of NIR-emitting Bismuth centers

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 12852-12863

  Peng, Mingying ^a,b   Sprenger, Benjamin ^c   Schmidt, Markus A ^c   Schwefel, Harald G L ^a   Wondraczek, Lothar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM; BISMUTH; CALCIUM; ENERGY TRANSFER; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE;

BI-DOPED; CO ATMOSPHERE; CRITICAL DISTANCE; EMISSION CENTERS; EMISSION DATA; EXCITED LEVELS; LATTICE SITES; NEAR INFRA RED; NIR EMISSION; POLYCRYSTALLINE; STATIC AND DYNAMIC; ULTRA-BROADBAND; VALENCE STATE;

INFRARED DEVICES;

EID: 77953572584     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.012852     Document Type: Article

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