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High sensitization efficiency and energy transfer routes for population inversion at low pump intensity in Er organic complexes for IR amplification

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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 8, Issue -, Pages -

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NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-21700-7

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Funding

  1. China Scholarship Council
  2. Queen Mary University of London (QMUL)
  3. Proof of Concept grant - QMUL
  4. EPSRC through the Silicon Photonics for Future Systems grant [EP/L00044X]
  5. QMUL
  6. EU FP7 (Marie Curie-CIG-Grant) [303535]
  7. Major State Basic Research Development Program [2013CB922101]
  8. NSFC [21371093, 61574095]
  9. EPSRC [EP/L020114/1, EP/P007767/1]
  10. EPSRC [EP/P007767/1] Funding Source: UKRI
  11. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/L020114/1, EP/P007767/1] Funding Source: researchfish

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Organic erbium complexes have long been of interest due to their potential for using the strong absorption into the organic to sensitise the erbium emission. Despite this interest there is remarkably little quantitative information on how effective the approach is and the discussion of the energy transfer mechanism is generally vague. Here we accurately quantify the sensitisation as a function of excitation pump density and model it using a rate equation approach. As a result, we can calculate the degree of population inversion for the erbium ions as a function of the pump intensity. We demonstrate that even when we increase the erbium concentration in the films from similar to 10 to similar to 80% we find a relatively small decrease in the sensitisation which we attribute to the large (> 20 angstrom) Forster radius for the sensitisation process. We show that we can obtain population inversion in our films at very low pump powers similar to 600 mW/cm(2). The calculated Forster radius for the organic erbium complexes suggests design rules for energy transfer between antennas and erbium ions in molecular systems and hybrid organic-inorganic nanoparticles.

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