One-photon rare earth optical transitions: recent theoretical developments

Gary W Burdick; M C Downer

One-photon rare earth optical transitions: recent theoretical developments

Gary W Burdick
, M C Downer

University of Texas at Austin

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Abstract

‘The puzzle of rare earth spectra in solids’, a term first coined by van Vleck [1], was solved 30 years ago by Judd [2] and Ofelt [3]. The rich variety of sharp optical absorption and emission lines characteristic of 4fN→4fN lanthanide transitions are parity forbidden in the free ions. However, in the quantitative Judd-Ofelt theory, observation of these transitions is explained through simple configuration mixing caused by a noncentrosymmetric crystal field, allowing opposite-parity excited configurations to become slightly mixed into 4fN.

Original language	American English
Title of host publication	Solid State Luminescence: Theory, materials, and devices
Editors	A. H. Kitai
Place of Publication	London, UK
Publisher	Chapman & Hall
Pages	97-131
ISBN (Print)	9789401046640 , 9789401115223
State	Published - 1993

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One-photon rare earth optical transitions: recent theoretical developments

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