Experimental and theoretical investigation of 4f3↔4f 25d interconfigurational transitions in Nd3+:LiYF 4 crystals

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 351151-3511511

  Collombet, A ^a   Guyot, Y ^a   Joubert, M F ^a   Laroche, M ^b   Margerie, J ^b   Moncorge R ^b,d   Descroix, E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

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FLUORINE; LITHIUM; NEODYMIUM; PRASEODYMIUM; THULIUM; YTTRIUM;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENERGY; LOW TEMPERATURE PROCEDURES; OPTICS; PHASE TRANSITION; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SPECTROSCOPY; THEORY;

EID: 9644310650     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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20. i〉, but this recoupling does not modify significantly the barycentre of the absorption spectrum.
21. 3+).
22. 25d would no longer be isolated from higher configurations and conduction band states.
23. 25d configuration. For the least-squares fit of Fig. 9, each of the 15 points is taken with a weight (2S+1)(2L+1).