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Spectral Properties of Er3+/Tm3+ Co-Doped ZBLAN Glasses and Fibers

Oct 3, 2017 | Application, Optical Metrology, Optics, Physics

X Liao, X Jiang, Q Yang, L Wang, D Chen – Materials, 2017 Abstract A series of Er3+/Tm3+ co-doped fluoride (ZBLAN) glasses and fibers was prepared and their fluorescence spectra was measured under excitation at 793 nm and 980 nm. Correlation between the...

Micro-sized tunable liquid crystal optical filters

Oct 3, 2017 | Application, Optical Metrology, Optics, Physics

C Stoltzfus, R Barbour, D Atherton, Z Barber – arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.00983, 2017 Abstract Liquid Crystal Arrayed Microcavities (LCAM) is a new technology for ultra-narrow optical filtering (FWHM ~ 0.1 nm) that uses pico-liter volume Fabry-Perot type optical...

A Core-Multiple Shell Nanostructure Enabling Concurrent Upconversion and Quantum Cutting for Photon Management

Mar 27, 2017 | Application, Chemistry, Physics, Solar SpectroRadiometry

W Shao, G Chen, TY Ohulchanskyy, C Yang, H Agren… – Nanoscale, 2017 Photon management enables the manipulation of the number of input photons by conversion of two or more light quanta into one (upconversion) or vice versa (quantum cutting). Simultaneous...

A high sensitivity compact gas concentration sensor using UV light and charge amplifier circuit

Mar 27, 2017 | Application, Physics, UV-VIS Absorption

H Ishii, M Nagase, N Ikeda, Y Shiba, Y Shirai, R Kuroda… – SENSORS, 2016 IEEE, 2016 A high sensitivity compact gas concentration sensor based on the ultraviolet (UV) light absorption spectrophotometry employing charge amplifier circuit is developed in this work...

Generation of high-intensity spectral supercontinuum of more than two octaves in a water jet

Jan 4, 2017 | Application, NIR, Optical Metrology, Physics

A. N. Tcypkin, S. E. Putilin, M. V. Melnik, E. A. Makarov, V. G. Bespalov, and S. A. Kozlov In this paper, we demonstrate experimentally for the first time (to our knowledge) the generation of spectral supercontinuum (SC) of more than two octaves with high intensity...

Cryostat System for Spacecraft Materials Testing

Sep 26, 2016 | Application, Physics

J Dekany – 2016 An existing space environment simulation test chamber used in the study of electron emission, sample charging and discharge, electrostatic discharge and arcing, electron transport, and luminescence of spacecraft materials now has extended...