Fluorescence Conversion Efficiency of Neodymium Glass

1 August 1965

journal article
Published by Optica Publishing Group in Journal of the Optical Society of America

Vol. 55 (8) , 940
https://doi.org/10.1364/josa.55.000940

Abstract

The relative effectiveness of the major absorption bands in producing fluorescence of the neodymium ion in glass was investigated. The chief result was that the conversion efficiency, the number of fluorescence photons per absorbed photon, was nearly independent of the absorption band pumped. For 5% Nd in barium crown glass, the conversion efficiency was 0.43 for the total fluorescence, and 0.26 for the 1.06-μ fluorescence.

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