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

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