White lasers are promising illuminants for emerging visible light communication, which can overcome bottlenecks of lower energy conversion efficiencies and output powers in traditional white light‐emitting (WLE) diodes. However, optical gain materials for white lasers are suffering from great challenges of material growth and growth‐compatible cavity structure where lasing of all three elementary colors can be supported simultaneously. Here, an exquisite physical strategy is demonstrated to realize simultaneous red, green, and blue (RGB) upconversion (UC) photoluminescence for white light modulation for the first time, namely using dual lasers at 850 and 980 nm to stimulate easy‐fabricated glass ceramics (GCs) fiber laser materials (Pr3+ single‐doped germanium oxyfluoride GCs). It is shown that tailorable white light is much more sensitive to lower dopant concentration for GCs than that for glass. Furthermore, compared to glass, UC fluorescence intensities in GCs have approximately two orders of magnitude enhancement. The feasibility of the judicious dual‐lasers excitation tactic is validated for high efficacious RGB fluorescence emission for white light from Pr3+ single‐doped GCs via electronics transition dynamics and theoretical calculations. The white light emission from Pr3+ single‐doped GCs, adjusted by simultaneous dual‐lasers excitation, may open a novel door to develop white light GCs fiber lasers for application in future wireless communication.
Here, we select simple Er3+‐doped tellurite glass as model system to systematically explore the up‐conversion, down‐shifting mechanisms with different excitations (980 and 447 nm), respectively. We observe for the first time, to the best of our knowledge that tunable photo‐luminescence occurs from green to red and NIR region, rather than merely from the long‐accepted green to red region. Direct evidence of selective energy transfer mechanism is expounded in detail, and its potential applications are demonstrated. In addition, we provide evidence that the cross‐relaxation process between dopant ions can enhance photo‐luminescence in Er3+ doped tellurite glasses with high dopant concentrations, whereas the crucial reason for emission decrease is the energy loss long‐distance energy migration. These fundamental insights into the photophysical processes in heavily doped photonic glasses will broaden the applications of rare‐earth‐doped materials ranging from optical communications to medical imaging.
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