Temporal dynamics of IR-to-visible up-conversion in linbo3: Er3+/Yb3+: A path to phosphors with tunable chromaticity

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1529-1537

  Marin Dobrincic, Martina ^a   Cantelar, Eugenio ^a   Cusso, Fernando ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICAL BEHAVIORS; EMISSION RATIO; MODULATION CHARACTERISTICS; RATE EQUATIONS; TEMPORAL DYNAMICS; UP-CONVERSION; UP-CONVERTING PHOSPHORS;

LIGHT EMISSION; PHOSPHORS; YTTERBIUM;

ERBIUM;

EID: 84870329031     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.2.001529     Document Type: Article

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