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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 30, Issue 25, Pages -Publisher
Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/OE.471027
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- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- [W911NF2110353]
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This article investigates the upconversion photoluminescence phenomenon in monolayer WSe2 and reveals two different upconversion mechanisms. The valley polarization properties of UPL emission are also explored. These findings are significant for photon upconversion applications based on monolayer TMDCs.
Upconversion photoluminescence (UPL) is a phenomenon describing an anti-Stokes process where the emitted photons have higher energy than the absorbed incident photons. Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) with strong photon-exciton interactions represent a fascinating platform for studying the anti-Stokes UPL process down to the monolayer thickness limit. Herein, we demonstrate room-temperature UPL emission in monolayer WSe2 with broadband near-infrared excitation. The measured excitation power dependence of UPL intensity at various upconversion energy gains unveils two distinguished upconversion mechanisms, including the one-photon involved multiphonon-assisted UPL process and the two-photon absorption (TPA) induced UPL process. In the phonon-assisted UPL regime, the observed exponential decay of UPL intensity with the increased energy gain is attributed to the decreased phonon population. Furthermore, valley polarization properties of UPL emission with circular polarization excitation is investigated. The demonstrated results will advance future photon upconversion applications based on monolayer TMDCs such as night vision, semiconductor laser cooling, and bioimaging.(c) 2022 Optica Publishing Group under the terms of the Optica Open Access Publishing Agreement
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