101. Influence of codoped Gd3+ ions on the spectroscopic site symmetry of Dy3+ ions in LaF3 single crystals.
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Hu, Mingyuan, Wang, Yan, You, Zhenyu, Zhu, Zhaojie, Li, Jianfu, Cai, Xiuyuan, and Tu, Chaoyang
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In this paper, a series of Dy
3+ /Gd3+ codoped LaF3 (LDG) single crystals were grown by the Bridgman–Stockbarger method. The influence of non-optically-active Gd3+ ions on the luminescence of Dy3+ ions in LaF3 crystals has been explored. Dy3+ /Gd3+ ions substitute for the La lattice in LaF3 , and the local site symmetry of each subset of Dy3+ will be distorted from C2 to lower symmetry C1 . Based on the measured low temperature excitation and emission spectra, it can be proved that Dy3+ ions occupy the same kind of spectroscopic site in Dy3+ /Gd3+ codoped LaF3 crystals, and codoped Gd3+ ions do not change the spectroscopic site symmetry of Dy3+ . When Gd3+ ions were codoped into the Dy3+ :LaF3 crystal, Dy–Gd clusters were formed around single Dy3+ ions to isolate Dy3+ ions from each other and weakened the concentration quenching effect of Dy3+ ions. When 2 at% Dy3+ and 1 at% Gd3+ ions were doped into the LaF3 crystal, the strongest yellow luminescence was obtained under excitation at 349 nm and 453.75 nm, respectively. While doped with 2 at% Dy3+ and 2 at% Gd3+ ions, the LDG crystal exhibited the strongest mid-infrared fluorescence emission intensity. This concludes that the LDG crystals are suitable for achieving a yellow laser (4 F9/2 →6 H13/2 transition) pumped using a InGaN blue laser diode (LD) and a mid-infrared laser (6 H13/2 →6 H15/2 transition) pumped using a 1280 nm LD. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2019
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