Electronic and vibronic transitions of the Cr4+-doped garnets Lu3Al5O12, Y3Al5O12, Y3Ga5O12 and Gd3Ga5O12

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Kuck, S
Petermann, K
Pohlmann, U
Huber, G
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[1] Institut für Laser-Physik, Universität Hamburg, 20355 Hamburg
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10.1016/0022-2313(95)00088-7
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
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The Cr4+-doped stoichiometric garnets Lu3Al5O12 (LAG), Y3Al5O12 (YAG), Y3Ga5O12 (YGG), and Gd3Ga5O12 (GGG) are spectroscopically investigated. All of these crystals exhibit broadband absorption around 1 mu m and broadband emission in the spectral range between 1.1 and 1.8 mu m. At low temperatures zero-phonon transitions as well as pronounced phonon sidebands are observed. The energies of the coupling phonons and the spin-orbit splittings of the energy levels are analyzed in detail.
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