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Optical properties of thulium orthoferrite TmFeO3

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Optical properties of the orthorhombic thulium orthoferrite TmFeO3 were studied in the spectral range from 0.64 to 5.4 eV. In the weak absorption region, below 2.2 eV, the energies of localized optical transitions in the Tm3+ and Fe3+ ions were determined. The dispersion relations of the real and imaginary parts of the principal refractive indices along three crystallographic axes were found. In the region of strong absorption, above 2.2 eV, the energies of six charge-transfer transitions were determined. The experimental data fit well to the concept of charge-transfer transitions in the FeO 9−6 octahedral complexes providing a dominant contribution to the optical properties of the orthoferrites. Optical birefringence and its temperature dependence were measured for the three principal directions of light propagation, and the anisotropic magnetic contribution to birefringence in the region of spin-orientational transitions was isolated.

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  1. Ioffe Physicotechnical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Politekhnicheskaya ul. 26, St. Petersburg, 194021, Russia

    P. A. Usachev & R. V. Pisarev

  2. Moscow Power Engineering Institute, ul. Krasnokazarmennaya 17, Moscow, 111250, Russia

    A. M. Balbashov

  3. Institute of Molecules and Materials, Radboud University Nijmegen, 6525 ED, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    A. V. Kimel, A. Kirilyuk & Th. Rasing

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Translated from Fizika Tverdogo Tela, Vol. 47, No. 12, 2005, pp. 2200–2206.

Original Russian Text Copyright © 2005 by Usachev, Pisarev, Balbashov, Kimel, Kirilyuk, Rasing.

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Usachev, P.A., Pisarev, R.V., Balbashov, A.M. et al. Optical properties of thulium orthoferrite TmFeO3 . Phys. Solid State 47, 2292–2298 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.2142893

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