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Optics and Spectroscopy

Electric dichroism of a multiwell spectral hole as an indicator of anisotropy in the distribution of stark moments of impurity molecules

G. M. Svishchev

Published Nov 1, 2002• 3 citations
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Abstract

Burning of multiwell holes in impurity-absorption spectra of glasses and polymers in an alternating electric field was theoretically studied. A case of circularly polarized burning radiation with a spectrum consisting of a series of close equidistant lines that shift synchronously with the variation of the electric field across the sample was considered. It was shown that an electric field applied to the sample after hole burning changes the optical density in the hole center, and that this change depends on the orientation of the plane of polarization of the probing radiation. Centrosymmetric impurity molecules, whose Stark moments (with randomly distributed magnitudes and directions) are governed only by their interaction with matrix molecules, and molecules with small intrinsic permanent Stark moments were considered. It was shown that the measurements of electric dichroism of a multiwell spectral hole make it possible to study both the anisotropy of matrix-induced moments and additional moments that arise, for example, when a metal atom leaves the plane of a metalloporphyrin molecule. It was also shown that the sensitivity and selectivity of the suggested method exceed those of known methods.

DOI
10.1134/1.1523989

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A method of selective (with respect to the Stark effect) burning of a spectral hole in the 0-0 absorption band of zero-dipole impurity molecules is suggested. It is shown that in combination with the Stark modulation of the optical density of a sample, this method makes it possible to determine that contribution to the total absorption and luminescence of the sample that the impurity molecules with a preset magnitude of the matrix-induced Stark moment (provided this magnitude exceeds the mean value for the entire ensemble) make. This allows one to experimentally study both the distribution of impurity molecules over the magnitude of the Stark moment and the correlation of the Stark moment with other parameters of impurity molecules.
A method of selective (relative to the magnitude of the linear Stark effect in zero-dipole impurity molecules) burning of holes in the spectra of amorphous matrices is studied. It is shown that this method makes it possible not only to select a subensemble of impurity molecules having both preset energy of the 0-0 transition and magnitude of the matrix-induced Stark moment, but also to divide this subensemble into two fractions whose Stark moments are predominantly oriented either along the transition moment or perpendicular to it. The possibility of experimental verification of the most popular hypothesis about the origin of induced Stark moments, which neglects a possible correlation between the direction of the Stark moment and that of the transition dipole moment, is considered. The method described also allows one to study experimentally the correlation of some other photophysical parameters of impurity molecules with the direction of local internal fields relative to the vector of the transition dipole moment.
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