Crystal field splitting of the 4f 5d electronic configuration of Pr 3+ ions in wide band gap fluoride dielectric crystals

Optics Communications

Volumn 208, Issue 4-6, 2002, Pages 345-358

  Sarantopoulou, E ^a   Kollia, Z ^a   Cefalas, A C ^a   Semashko, V V ^b   Abdulsabirov, R Yu ^b   Naumov, A K ^b   Korableva, S L ^b   Szczurek, T ^c   Kobe, S ^d   McGuiness, P J ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Greece)

^b KAZAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^d JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

157 nm; Rare earth ions; Stark splitting; Vacuum ultraviolet; VSM

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY GAP; FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; LASER EXCITATION; METAL IONS; POSITIVE IONS; RARE EARTHS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; ULTRAVIOLET LASERS;

157 NM; DIPOLE-ALLOWED TRANSITIONS; LASER INDUCED FLUORESCENCE; RARE EARTH IONS; STARK SPLITTING; VACUUM ULTRAVIOLET EMISSION; VACUUM ULTRAVIOLETS; VIBRATING SAMPLE MAGNETOMETER;

PRASEODYMIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 0013369047     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(02)01568-7     Document Type: Article

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