Abstract
Enhancing the photoluminescence and depressing the background emission are important
problems in rare earth ion-doped materials. In this letter, the two-photon absorption (TPA)
probability in a Pr<sup>3+</sup> ion system is enhanced by a factor of 12.3 by a π-phase step scanning of
ultrashort laser pulses. This level is significantly higher than that achieved by a transform-limit
pulse. However, the laser intensity of shaped pulse is reduced to 37% of the initial
transform-limited pulse. In this method, the TPA probability can also be reduced to 58%.
Furthermore, the effect of the shift of the intermediate energy level and the bandwidth of final
states on TPA probability is discussed.
© 2013 Chinese Optics Letters
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