Abstract
Thermally induced threefold infrared-to-visible upconversion emission
enhancement in Er3+/Yb3+-codoped Ga2S3:La2O3 chalcogenide glasses
excited at 1.064 mu m is reported. The times three upconversion
efficiency enhancement was achieved by heating the sample in the
temperature range of 23-155 degrees C, and is assigned to the
temperature-dependent multiphonon-assisted anti-Stokes sideband
excitation process of the ytterbium sensitizer. A theoretical analysis
based upon rate equations considering the sensitizer absorption cross
section as a function of the phonon occupation number in the host
material exhibited very good agreement with experimental data. (c) 1999
American Institute of Physics. S0003-6951(99)01524-7.
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