Infrared emission properties and energy transfer between Tm3+ and Ho3+ in lanthanum aluminum germanate glasses

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 975-980

  Zhang, Qiang ^a,b   Ding, Jie ^c   Shen, Yinglong ^a,b   Zhang, Guang ^a,b   Lin, Geng ^a,b   Qiu, Jianrong ^d   Chen, Danping ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c GUANGDONG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; GLASS; HOLMIUM; LANTHANUM; LANTHANUM ALLOYS; LASER EXCITATION;

BRANCHING RATIO; CO-DOPED; EFFICIENT ENERGY TRANSFER; EMISSION CHARACTERISTICS; GERMANATE GLASS; INFRARED EMISSION PROPERTY; JUDD-OFELT PARAMETERS; LASER DIODES; MELT QUENCHING METHOD; MICROSCOPIC ENERGY; SPECTROSCOPIC PROPERTY; TRANSFER COEFFICIENT;

ENERGY TRANSFER;

EID: 77955699556     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.27.000975     Document Type: Article

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