Germplasm resources of three wood plant species enriched with nervonic acid.

Nervonic acid (NA) is a very-long-chain monounsaturated fatty acid with pharmaceutical and nutraceutical functions that plays an important role in treating several neurological disorders. One major source of NA is plant seed oil. Here we report fatty acid profiles of seeds and germplasm diversity of six plant species, including three woody plants with high amounts of NA-enriched seed oil, , , and .

Red upconversion emission in LiNbO3 codoped with Er3+ and Eu3+.

Red upconversion (UC) emission at 626 nm is obtained from a LiNbO(3) crystal codoped with Er(3+) and Eu(3+) under 800 nm femtosecond laser excitation. Energy transfer from ((2)H(11/2,),(4) S(3/2)) levels of Er(3+), which are excited by excited state absorption, to (5)D(1) of Eu(3+) followed by rapidly relaxing to (5)D(0) nonradiatively leads to this red UC emission. The energy transfer efficiency and Er-Eu transfer microparameter of approximately 30% is obtained in LiNbO(3):Er(3+)(1.

Two-photon-excited luminescence in a Tb3+ -doped lithium niobate crystal pumped by a near-infrared femtosecond laser.

Blue (487.6 nm), green (544.1 nm), yellow (582.

Enhanced green upconversion emission of Er(3+) through energy transfer by Dy(3+) under 800 nm femtosecond-laser excitation.

Er(3+) green upconversion (UC) emission corresponding to the transition of (4)S(3/2) ((2)H(11/2))-->(4)I(15/2) is enhanced in a Er/Dy-codoped LiNbO(3) crystal compared with Er-doped LiNbO(3) under 800 nm femtosecond-laser excitation at room temperature. The upconversion mechanisms are proposed based on spectral, kinetic, and pump-power dependence analyses. The energy-transfer efficiency from Dy(3+)((4)F(9/2)) to Er(3+)((4)F(7/2)) is 33%, which results in the enhancement of green UC emission.