Pr3+-sensitized Er3+-doped bismuthate glass for generating high inversion rates at 2.7 μm wavelength

Optics Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 3387-3389

  Guo, Yanyan ^a,b   Tian, Ying ^a,b   Zhang, Liyan ^a   Hu, Lili ^a   Chen, Nan Kuang ^c   Zhang, Junjie ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c NATIONAL UNITED UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

980 NM LASERS; BISMUTHATE GLASS; CO-DOPANTS; CO-DOPED; ENERGY SYSTEMS; ENERGY TRANSFER PROCESS; ER3+ IONS; EXCITED STATE ABSORPTION; INVERSION RATES; MOLAR CONCENTRATION; POPULATION INVERSIONS; PR3+ IONS;

ENERGY TRANSFER; GERMANIUM; GLASS;

DOPING (ADDITIVES);

BISMUTH; ERBIUM; GLASS; PRASEODYMIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; LASER; MATERIALS TESTING;

BISMUTH; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; ERBIUM; GLASS; LASERS; MATERIALS TESTING; PRASEODYMIUM;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84865519198     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.37.003387     Document Type: Article

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