Low Temperature Physics
Anomalous dephasing of optical transitions of a Pr3+ ion in Y2SiO5 crystal
Yu. V. Malyukin, N. L. Pogrebnyak, V. P. Seminozhenko
Abstract
The temperature drops in the photon echo intensity have been studied for the first time in the low-symmetry impurity crystal Y2SiO5:Pr3+ in the temperature range 4.2–20 K on the resonance transitions 3P0–3H4 and 1D2–3H4 of the Pr3+ ion. It is shown that the obtained results can be interpreted by using the familiar mechanisms of dephasing of optical transitions in impurity ions.