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Abnormal upconversion luminescence from Yb3+ doped and Tb3+/Yb3+ codoped high silica glasses induced by intrinsic optical bistability

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Upconversion luminescence (UCL) properties from Yb3+ doped and Tb3+/Yb3+ codoped high silica glasses excited by a 980 nm laser diode are investigated. The ln–ln plots of the UCL intensity versus laser power show abnormal relations: the slopes are larger than those reported in other papers. When tuning the laser power up and down successively, intrinsic optical bistability of Yb3+ ions is observed at room temperature in the visible and infrared range without external cavity. And this nonlinear effect induces the abnormal UCL phenomena.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Material Science and Technology for High Power Lasers, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 390 Qinghe Road, Jiading, Shanghai, 201800, People’s Republic of China

    Q. Zhang, X. Liu, B. Qian, G. Dong, Q. Zhou & D. Chen

  2. Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100039, People’s Republic of China

    Q. Zhang, X. Liu, B. Qian & G. Dong

  3. Key Laboratory for Ultrafine Materials of Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, No. 130 Meilong Road, Minhang, Shanghai, 200237, People’s Republic of China

    G. Chen & Y. Xu

  4. State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, Zhejiang University, No. 148 Tianmushang Road, Hangzhou, 310027, People’s Republic of China

    J. Qiu

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Zhang, Q., Chen, G., Xu, Y. et al. Abnormal upconversion luminescence from Yb3+ doped and Tb3+/Yb3+ codoped high silica glasses induced by intrinsic optical bistability. Appl. Phys. B 98, 261–265 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-009-3842-z

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