Enhancement of 1.53 μm emission band in NaYF4: Er3+,Yb3+,Ce3+ nanocrystals for polymer-based optical waveguide amplifiers

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 270-277

  Zhai, Xuesong ^a   Li, Jie ^a   Liu, Shusen ^a   Liu, Xinyang ^a   Zhao, Dan ^a   Wang, Fei ^a   Zhang, Daming ^a   Qin, Guanshi ^a   Qin, Weiping ^a  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CO-DOPING; EFFICIENT ENERGY TRANSFER; EMISSION BANDS; HIGH GAIN; NANOCRYSTAL (NCS); NAYF4:ER; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE AMPLIFIERS; SOLVOTHERMAL APPROACH;

ENERGY TRANSFER; LASER EXCITATION; NANOCRYSTALS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; YTTERBIUM;

ERBIUM;

EID: 84874139367     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.3.000270     Document Type: Article

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