Optical phonon effects on linewidth of several laser active ions in YAG

Aurelia Lupei; Voicu Lupei; T. G. Sorop; Eugen Osiac; A. Petraru

doi:10.1117/12.378675

23 February 2000 Optical phonon effects on linewidth of several laser active ions in YAG

Aurelia Lupei, Voicu Lupei, T. G. Sorop, Eugen Osiac, A. Petraru

Proceedings Volume 4068, SIOEL '99: Sixth Symposium on Optoelectronics; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.378675
Event: SIOEL: Sixth Symposium of Optoelectronics, 1999, Bucharest, Romania

Abstract

An analysis of low temperature lineshapes for various absorption lines of several RE³⁺ ions from the beginning Nd³⁺ and end of lanthanide series Er³⁺, Tm³⁺ embedded in the same crystal - YAG known as important laser systems for 1-3 micrometers emission is presented. New aspects of the dependence of electron-phonon coupling on RE³⁺ ions and matrix are observed from the analysis of many transitions of these ions at low temperature. These data show that eh electron-phonon coupling presents a symmetric behavior in the lanthanide series, larger toward beginning and end. With only very few exceptions, less than 2 percent, the broadenings or splittings of zero-phonon liens could be connected to optical Raman phonons of undoped lattice. That means that the parity of 4fⁿ states could still be considered a good parent quantum number, even if the local symmetry has no inversion, and the near resonant coupling involves the even part of the electron-phonon coupling operator. Besides, the one phono relaxation involve the undoped lattice phonons. For ions with small spin-orbit coupling, the vibronic contribution to the line intensity given by ir phonons through a Van Vleck mechanism could be important for spin forbidden transitions.

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Aurelia Lupei, Voicu Lupei, T. G. Sorop, Eugen Osiac, and A. Petraru "Optical phonon effects on linewidth of several laser active ions in YAG", Proc. SPIE 4068, SIOEL '99: Sixth Symposium on Optoelectronics, (23 February 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.378675

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