Generation of 1.5 μm emission through an upconversion-mediated looping mechanism in Er3+/Sc3+-codoped LiNbO3 single crystal

Optics Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1268-1270

  Chen, Guanying ^a,b   Yang, Liming ^c   Xu, Chao ^a   Hao, Shuwei ^a   Qiu, Hailong ^a   Sun, Liang ^a   Xu, Yuheng ^a   Yang, Chunhui ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c HARBIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CO-DOPED; DIRECT EXCITATION; DOWNCONVERSION; EXCITATION DENSITY; QUADRATIC DEPENDENCE; UP-CONVERSION EMISSION;

EXCITED STATES; LUMINESCENCE; SINGLE CRYSTALS; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES;

ERBIUM;

ERBIUM; LITHIUM NIOBATE; NIOBIUM; OXIDE; SCANDIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DIODE LASER; LUMINESCENCE; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY;

ERBIUM; LASERS, SEMICONDUCTOR; LUMINESCENCE; NIOBIUM; OXIDES; SCANDIUM; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 84859205490     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.37.001268     Document Type: Article

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