Three methods for optical temperature sensing are investigated in the NaLuF ₄ :Yb ³⁺ /Er ³⁺ /Tm ³⁺ phosphor, based on thermal, quasi-thermal and non-thermal coupling levels.

The light-induced magnetization distributions for a high numerical aperture focusing configuration with an azimuthally polarized Bessel-Gaussian beam modulated by optimized vortex binary filters are investigated based on the inverse Faraday effect. It is found that, by adjusting the radii of different rings of the single/ cascaded vortex binary filters, super-long (12λ) and sub-wavelength (0.416λ) longitudinal magnetization chain with single/dual channels can be achieved in the focal region. Such well-behaved magnetization trait is attributed to the mutual effect between the optical polarization singularities of the azimuthally polarized beam and single/cascaded spiral optical elements. In addition, we find that the displacement distance of the longitudinal magnetization chain is proportional to the phase difference between the inner circle and outer ring of the vortex binary filters, thus giving rise to the steerable magnetization chain. It is expected that the research outcomes can be applied in multiple atoms trapping and transport, multilayer magneto-optical data storage, fabrication of magnetic lattices for spin wave operation and development of ultra-compact optomagnetic devices.

Intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) is an important factor in the nonlinear optical (NLO) properties of organic molecules. In order to study the effect of ICT on two-photon absorption (TPA) and excited-state absorption (ESA), three chalcone derivatives (1, 2 and 3) with different electron push–pull systems were designed and synthesized. The ICT performance of these chalcone derivatives depends on the electron push–pull systems and mainly includes ultrafast ICT in the femtosecond time domain and long-lived charge transfer state (CTS) in the picosecond time domain, which dominate the performance of molecular TPA and ESA respectively. Hole–electron analysis and femtosecond Z-scan experiment indicate that the TPA cross section of these chalcone derivatives can be effectively enhanced by introducing stronger ultra-fast ICT in the case of little difference in ground-state absorption and expanding the molecular π-conjugated structure. Transient absorption spectrum (TAS) experiments of these compounds in solvents of varying polarities were conducted to visualize the establishment of CTS. The local excited state (LES) and charge transfer state (CTS)-based ESA of these chalcone derivatives are extremely dependent on the strength of ICT. Our experimental results show that the superposition of LES and CTS by enhancing ICT performance can effectively improve the ESA, which offers us a practical method to improve the long-impulse response of organic materials.

Based on the vector diffraction theory and the inverse Faraday effect, we numerically study the light-induced magnetization near the focus of a 4π high numerical aperture focusing configuration under the illumination of two counter- propagating radially polarized hollow Gaussian vortex beams. The simulated results demonstrate that, by selecting higher-order vortex beam modes (e.g. $n=4$with $n$ – the beam order) and proper truncation parameter (e.g. $\beta =1.75$ with $\beta$– the ratio of the pupil radius to the incident beam waist), spherical and sub-wavelength longitudinal magnetization can be generated in the vicinity of focus. Such special magnetization feature is attributed to not only the interaction between optical vortices and the radially polarized beams, but also the completely destructive interference of azimuthal components and the constructive interference of the longitudinal component of the two counter-propagating radially polarized vortex beams. This spherical and sub-wavelength longitudinal magnetization distribution may be of interest for applications in all-optical magnetic recording and confocal and magnetic resonance microscopy.