Abstract
We report large thermal enhancement of the frequency upconversion (UC) process due to cooperative energy transfer (CET) in a Yb3+/Tb3+ codoped fluoroindate glass obtained by heating the sample from 308 to 530 K. To study the influence of multiphonon transitions in the UC process we chose anti-Stokes quasiresonant excitation of Yb3+ ions which were used as sensitizers. UC of radiation at 1064 nm into blue and green light was obtained. Various emission lines of Tb3+ were observed between 400 and 700 nm due to CET from Yb3+ to Tb3+ ions. A rate equation model was used to describe the temperature dependence of the UC emission intensities and the theoretical results are in good agreement with the experimental data.
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