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Photonics Research
Vol. 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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Ye Zheng, Lianzhong Deng, Jianping Li, Tianqing Jia, Jianrong Qiu, Zhenrong Sun, Shian Zhang. Controlling multiphoton excited energy transfer from Tm3+ to Yb3+ ions by a phase-shaped femtosecond laser field[J]. Photonics Research, 2019, 7(4): 486 Copy Citation Text

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Ye Zheng, Lianzhong Deng, Jianping Li, Tianqing Jia, Jianrong Qiu, Zhenrong Sun, Shian Zhang. Controlling multiphoton excited energy transfer from Tm3+ to Yb3+ ions by a phase-shaped femtosecond laser field[J]. Photonics Research, 2019, 7(4): 486

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