Fluorescence intensity ratio (FIR) based temperature sensing techniques have received widespread attention in recent decades. However, the excitation light inevitably results in stray light and extra heat that will affect...
In conventional electron trapping optical storage phosphor, both short‐ and long‐wavelength light are needed for information write‐in and read‐out, respectively, complicating the optical storage system. Here, a Y3Al2Ga3O12:Pr3+,Eu3+ optical storage phosphor with Pr3+ as an electron donor and Eu3+ as an electron trap is designed, and a single wavelength write‐read scheme is demonstrated, which employs the same blue laser diode (LD) light source for both optical write‐in through two‐photon up‐conversion charging and for read‐out based on photostimulated luminescence (PSL), originated from 4f15d1→4f2 transition of Pr3+ peaked at 315 nm in UV region. A deep electron trap with the mean depth of 1.42 eV and a narrow distribution of 0.3 eV is observed in the presence of Eu3+ in Y3Al2Ga3O12:Pr3+, implying its long‐term storage potential. The write‐in and read‐out experiments are conducted using 450 nm blue LD light with the power density of 1 W cm−2 for write‐in and that with a low power density of 0.02 W cm−2 for read‐out in order to avoid the effect of up‐conversion luminescence on PSL signal. These results will advance the electron trapping optical storage scheme.
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