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Photonics Research, Volume. 7, Issue 4, 486(2019)

Controlling multiphoton excited energy transfer from Tm3+ to Yb3+ ions by a phase-shaped femtosecond laser field

Ye Zheng¹, Lianzhong Deng¹, Jianping Li¹, Tianqing Jia¹, Jianrong Qiu², Zhenrong Sun¹, and Shian Zhang^1,3、*

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¹State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, School of Physics and Materials Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China

²State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China

³Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China

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Paper Information

Category: Ultrafast Optics

Received: Dec. 18, 2018

Accepted: Feb. 2, 2019

Published Online: Apr. 11, 2019

The Author Email: Shian Zhang (sazhang@phy.ecnu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.7.000486

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