Upconversion luminescence and decay kinetics in a diode-pumped nanocrystalline Nd3+:YVO4 random laser

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 12487-12497

  Vieira, Renato Juliani Ribamar ^a   Gomes, Laércio ^a   Martinelli, José Roberto ^a   Wetter, Niklaus Ursus ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE PESQUISAS ENERGÉTICAS E NUCLEARES   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STIMULATED EMISSION;

DECAY KINETICS; DIODE-PUMPED; LASER CHARACTERISTICS; LINEWIDTH NARROWING; LONG PULSE; NANOCRYSTALLINES; PUMP INTENSITIES; RANDOM LASERS; RANDOM LASING; UP-CONVERSION; UP-CONVERSION LUMINESCENCE;

NEODYMIUM;

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; SOLID STATE LASER;

CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; NANOSTRUCTURES;

EID: 84861522826     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.012487     Document Type: Article

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