Journal of Inorganic Materials

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Properties of Up-conversion Emission of Er3+-doped Silicate Glasses

LI Wei-Nan, ZOU Kuai-Sheng, LU Min, XIANG Li-Bin   

  1. State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, Xi’an
    Institute of Optics And Procession Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710068, China
  • Received:2006-02-16 Revised:2006-04-10 Published:2007-01-20 Online:2007-01-20

Abstract: Absorption spectra and up-conversion emission spectra of Er3+-doped silicate glasses were investigated. The intensity parameters Ωλ(λ=2,4,6), the oscillator strength, the spontaneous transition probabilities and the fluorescence branching ratios were calculated by the theory of Judd-Ofelt. The up-conversion emission spectra show there are stronger green light and red light centered about 522nm, 545nm and 658nm, corresponding to the transition of 2H11/24I15/24S3/24I15/24F9/24I15/2, and the slope of fitted lines is 1.76, 1.94, 1.67, respectively, which indicates a two-photon process for the green and red light. The up-conversion mechanisms are determined to be excited state absorption and energy transfer.

Key words: excited state absorption, energy transfer, up-conversion emission, two-photon absorption

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