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Room temperature emission from the Pr3+ 1 S 0-level in PrF3

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PrF3 as well as PrF3-LiF and PrF3-MgF2 mixtures were investigated by means of high-energetic excitation with synchrotron radiation. In the PrF3 emission spectrum bands due to the intra-configurational 4f2→4f2 transitions originating from the 1 S 0 level of the Pr3+ ion have been identified. The emission from the 3 P 0 multiplet is very weak due to non-radiative decay by cross-relaxation processes. Therefore, PrF3 is not an efficient direct cascade emitter. In the PrF3 excitation spectra in the ultraviolet/vacuum-ultraviolet spectral range, the 3 H 4→1 S 0 transition at 46858 cm-1 as well as broad bands due to the inter-configurational 4f2→4f5d transitions are observed. By comparison with data of Pr3+ doped YF3, the branching ratios of the emission transitions for PrF3 from the 1 S 0 were determined; these are 0.008, 0.075, 0.262, 0.023 and 0.629 for transitions 1 S 0→3 H 4, 3 F 4, 1 G 4, 1 D 2 and 1 I 6, respectively. For the polycrystalline PrF3-LiF and PrF3-MgF2 samples investigated by us, the measured emission and excitation spectra are nearly identical to those of PrF3. For polycrystalline PrF3-KMgF3 the observed spectra are superpositions of the PrF3 and Pr3+:KMgF3 spectra.

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    S. Kück

  2. Institut für Laser-Physik, Universität Hamburg, Jungiusstrasse 9a, 20355, Hamburg, Germany

    S. Kück

  3. W. Trzebiatowski Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Okólna Street 2, P.O. Box 1410, Wroclaw, Poland

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Kück , S., Sokólska , I. Room temperature emission from the Pr3+ 1 S 0-level in PrF3 . Appl Phys A 77, 469–474 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-002-1463-z

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