Near-infrared emission bands of Er-doped YAP and LSO crystals |
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Authors: | Yuchong Ding Guangjun Zhao Jianyu Chen Yosuke Nakai |
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Affiliation: | a Key Laboratory of Materials for High Power Laser, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, PR China b Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, PR China c Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto Sangyo University, Kamigamo, Kyoto 603-8555, Japan |
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Abstract: | The ground state absorption (GSA), photoluminescence (PL) and photoluminescence excitation (PLE) spectra for Er(1.0 at%):YAP and Er(0.5 at%):LSO were measured at room temperature. Based on the GSA spectra, the radiative transition rates and luminescence branch ratios of erbium ions were determined by the Judd-Ofelt (J-O) method. In the range of 1400-1700 nm Er(1.0 at%):YAP has intense absorption at 1509 nm (0.96×10−20 cm2), which is almost two times larger than the peak absorption of Er(0.5 at%):LSO. From the PL and PLE spectra, four intense emission bands around 850 nm (4S3/2→4I13/2), 980 nm (4I11/2→4I15/2), 1230 nm (4S3/2→4I11/2) and 1520 nm (4I13/2→4I15/2) were observed. The stimulated emission cross-sections of the four bands were calculated by the Fuchtbauer-Ladenberg (F-L) equation. The results suggest that Er(1.0 at%):YAP has potential to realize laser oscillation at 858 nm because of the relatively large simulated emission cross-section (1.76×10−20 cm2). The temperature dependences of the PL spectra for the two crystals were also investigated in the range of 290-12 K. The ∼1520 nm emission presents continuous increase with temperature, while the emissions around 850, 1230 and 980 nm firstly increase with temperature, then reach their own largest values at the transition temperatures (about 100 K), and finally decrease with temperature. These results were well interpreted by the temperature dependence of multi-phonon process. |
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Keywords: | Erbium Near-infrared luminescence Temperature dependence Non-radiative transition |
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