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Mechanism of a population inversion between the /sup 4/I/sub 11/2/ and /sup 4/I/sub 13/2/ levels of the Er/sup 3 +/ ion in Y/sub 3/Al/sub 5/O/sub 12/ crystals

Journal Article · · Sov. J. Quant. Electron. (Engl. Transl.); (United States)
Studies of the spectra of stimulated emission from Y/sub 3/Al/sub 5/O/sub 12/:Er/sup 3 +/ crystals (/sup 4/I/sub 11/2/--/sup 4/I/sub 13/2/), containing 20 wt.% activator ions, showed that, as the temperature decreased from 300 to 77 /sup 0/K, a change was observed in the emission wavelength (at T=300 /sup 0/K it was found that lambda/sub 1/=2.9364 ..mu..lambda/sub 2/=2.8310 ..mu.. and at T=77 /sup 0/K it was found that lambda/sub 1/=2.6930 ..mu.., lambda/sub 2/=2.8970 ..mu..). This could not be attributed to a thermal redistribution of the populations of the Stark components of the /sup 4/I/sub 11/2/ and /sup 4/I/sub 13/2/ upper and lower active levels. An analysis of the results showed that the temperature shift of the stimulated emission spectrum was due to changes in the processes of relaxation of excitation from the upper levels of the Er/sup 3 +/ ion which caused substantial changes in the populations of the /sup 4/I/sub 11/2/ and /sup 4/I/sub 13/2/ multiplets.
Research Organization:
P. N. Lebedev Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow
OSTI ID:
5199055
Journal Information:
Sov. J. Quant. Electron. (Engl. Transl.); (United States), Journal Name: Sov. J. Quant. Electron. (Engl. Transl.); (United States) Vol. 10:4; ISSN SJQEA
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English