Abstract
We report strong room-temperature photoluminescence at ~1.5μm in erbium-doped deuterated amorphous carbon for the first time. Deuteration, instead of hydrogenation, of amorphous carbon eliminates C-H and O-H bonds, significantly reducing the quenching of erbium emission.
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