Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC)

Low temperature spectroscopy of Yb/sup 3+/:YVO/sub 4/

Christian Kränkel, D. Fagundes‐Peters, V. Péters, K. Petermann, Günter Huber

Published Jan 25, 2006• 0 citations

Abstract

In this paper, we have measured the fluorescence and the absorption of Yb/sup 3+/:YVO/sub 4/ at low temperature in order to determine the splitting of the three stark-levels in the upper /sup 2/F/sub 5/2/ and four stark-levels in the lower /sup 2/F/sub 7/2/ multiplet. The results are in good agreement with the values calculated by the Fuchtbauer-Ladenburg-method.

DOI: 10.1109/cleoe.2005.1568113

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A detailed spectroscopic study of

{\text{Yb}}^{3+}:{\text{CaF}}_{2}

is made by using laser selective excitation, low-temperature time-resolved fluorescence, and Raman techniques. Three dominant types of

{\text{Yb}}^{3+}

isolated ion centers are identified at very low

(0.03\text{ }\text{at}\text{.}\text{ }%)

dopant concentration: two of them with cubic and tetragonal symmetries and the third one not clearly identified but likely of trigonal symmetry. Fluorescence decays strongly differ from one site to another. The overall measured positions of the Stark sublevels of the

{^{2}F}_{7/2}

and

{^{2}F}_{5/2}

multiplets are satisfactorily explained by the crystal-field calculations. On the other hand, at higher dopant concentrations, only one dominant class of

{\text{Yb}}^{3+}

centers occurs which corresponds to some hexameric cluster in which the

{\text{Yb}}^{3+}

ions site in nearly tetragonal crystal-field environments and whose energy-level positions are discussed and compared with those previously reported in the literature.