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Direct calculation of lanthanide optical transition intensities Nd3+:YAG

Gary W Burdick, F. S. Richardson, M. F. Reid, H. J. Kooy

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Abstract

The influence of Coulomb and spin-orbit interactions on one-photon transitions within the 4f3 configuration of Nd3+ in YAG is taken into account by a "direct" calculation, which explicitly evaluates the eigenstates of 4f3 and 4f25d. The interconfigurational crystal-field parameters are fitted to the experimental data and the traditional one-electron intensity parameters are retained to account for non-crystal-field mechanisms. A small but significant improvement in the fit is obtained. © 1995.
Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)115-119
JournalJournal of Alloys and Compounds
Volume225
Issue number1-2
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 15 1995

Disciplines

  • Physics

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