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Materials (Basel). 2016 May 11;9(5). doi: 10.3390/ma9050353.

Influence of Upconversion Processes in the Optically-Induced Inhomogeneous Thermal Behavior of Erbium-Doped Lanthanum Oxysulfide Powders.

Materials (Basel, Switzerland)

Rolindes Balda, Noha Hakmeh, Macarena Barredo-Zuriarrain, Odile Merdrignac-Conanec, Sara García-Revilla, M Angeles Arriandiaga, Joaquín Fernández

Affiliations

  1. Departamento de Física Aplicada I, Escuela Superior de Ingeniería, Universidad del País Vasco UPV-EHU, Alda. Urquijo s/n, 48013 Bilbao, Spain. [email protected].
  2. Materials Physics Center CSIC-UPV/EHU and Donostia International Physics Center, 20080 San Sebastián, Spain. [email protected].
  3. Laboratoire des Verres et Cerámiques, UMR-CNRS 6226, Université de Rennes, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France. [email protected].
  4. Departamento de Física Aplicada I, Escuela Superior de Ingeniería, Universidad del País Vasco UPV-EHU, Alda. Urquijo s/n, 48013 Bilbao, Spain. [email protected].
  5. Laboratoire des Verres et Cerámiques, UMR-CNRS 6226, Université de Rennes, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France. [email protected].
  6. Departamento de Física Aplicada I, Escuela Superior de Ingeniería, Universidad del País Vasco UPV-EHU, Alda. Urquijo s/n, 48013 Bilbao, Spain. [email protected].
  7. Departamento de Física Aplicada II, Facultad de Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU, Apartado 644 Bilbao, Spain. [email protected].
  8. Departamento de Física Aplicada I, Escuela Superior de Ingeniería, Universidad del País Vasco UPV-EHU, Alda. Urquijo s/n, 48013 Bilbao, Spain. [email protected].
  9. Materials Physics Center CSIC-UPV/EHU and Donostia International Physics Center, 20080 San Sebastián, Spain. [email protected].

PMID: 28773478 PMCID: PMC5503018 DOI: 10.3390/ma9050353

Abstract

The efficient infrared-to-visible upconversion emission present in Er-doped lanthanum oxysulfide crystal powders is used as a fine thermal sensor to determine the influence of upconversion processes on the laser-induced thermal load produced by the pump laser and to assess the potentialities of this material in order to obtain anti-Stokes laser-induced cooling. The analysis of the upconversion emission and excitation spectra as well as the decay curves indicates that energy transfer upconversion is the main mechanism responsible for the green (⁴S

Keywords: erbium; laser cooling; laser materials; low phonon materials; upconversion

References

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