Giant enhancements of high-order upconversion luminescence enabled by multiresonant hyperbolic metamaterials

Haofei Xu; Zhimin Zhu; Jiancai Xue; Qiuqiang Zhan; Zhangkai Zhou; Xuehua Wang

doi:10.1364/PRJ.414047

Photonics Research, Volume. 9, Issue 3, 395(2021)

Giant enhancements of high-order upconversion luminescence enabled by multiresonant hyperbolic metamaterials

Haofei Xu¹, Zhimin Zhu², Jiancai Xue¹, Qiuqiang Zhan², Zhangkai Zhou^1,3、*, and Xuehua Wang^1,4、*

¹State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Physics, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China

²Centre for Optical and Electromagnetic Research, South China Academy of Advanced Optoelectronics, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China

³e-mail: zhouzhk@mail.sysu.edu.cn

⁴e-mail: wangxueh@mail.sysu.edu.cn

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Category: Optical and Photonic Materials

Received: Nov. 4, 2020

Accepted: Jan. 11, 2021

Published Online: Mar. 2, 2021

The Author Email: Zhangkai Zhou (zhouzhk@mail.sysu.edu.cn), Xuehua Wang (wangxueh@mail.sysu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.414047

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