Line Verification in the Luminescence Spectra of Fluorophosphate Glass Doped with Yterbium and Thulium Ions by the Power of Nonlinearity of Up-Conversion Processes

We have investigated up-conversion luminescence spectra of fluorophosphate glasses doped with rareearth ions Yb³⁺ with concentrations from 4 to 10% and Tm³⁺ with concentrations from 10–5 to 3% CW excited at 975 nm. Observed features of the spectra are the result of several up-conversion processes. Each process corresponds to a different Tm³⁺ excited level and possible nonlinearity (i.e., with a different number of absorbed photons per the emitted one). We used our obtained experimental data to analyze an influence of the pumping power and the doping ions concentration on respective contributions of different processes in the luminescence spectra. We showed that simultaneous appearance of several lines in each observed spectral region is typical for smaller concentrations of Tm³⁺ (much less than a percent) and larger concentrations of Yb³⁺ (4–10 %). Increasing Tm³⁺ concentration up to 3% while having 5% Yb³⁺ concentration leads to localization of the up-conversion spectrum in 755—840 nm band with a maximum near 793 nm.

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