Use of thulium-sensitized rare earth-doped low phonon energy crystalline hosts for IR sources

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Ganem, Joseph ^a   Bowman, Steven R ^b  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mid infrared sources; Optically pumped mid infrared phosphors; Potassium lead chloride; Rare earth doped crystals; Solid state optical cooling; Thulium cross relaxation

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; INFRARED DEVICES; LEAD COMPOUNDS; LIGHT SOURCES; LUMINESCENCE; METAL IONS; OPTICAL LATTICES; PHONONS; PHOSPHORS; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; RARE EARTHS; YTTRIUM COMPOUNDS;

CROSS RELAXATION; LEAD CHLORIDES; MID-INFRARED SOURCES; MIDINFRARED; OPTICAL COOLING; RARE-EARTH DOPED CRYSTALS;

THULIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84887300286     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-8-455     Document Type: Article

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