Fig. 5. Luminescence kinetics for Yb-Er donor and RB acceptor UC-LRET system based on a theoretical model of differential rate equations.
The acceptor concentration-dependent kinetics of 4S3/2 level (left column: a–c) and 4F9/2 (right column d–f) of Er3+ derived with DRE modeling for the three excitation schemes: TTL triggered 4 ms 980 nm CW laser diode pulse (top row, a, d), ca. 10 ns 980 nm OPO laser pulse (middle row, b, e) and ca. 10 ns 520 nm OPO laser pulse (bottom row, c, f). The acceptor concentration increases from the darkest (no acceptor present) to the lightest color (highest concentrations; details of the model in SI)