Optical absorption spectrum and local symmetry of Tm3+ ion in TmAl3(BO3)4 crystal

A. V. Malakhovskii, I. S. Edelman, A. E. Sokolov, V. L. Temerov, S. L. Gnatchenko, I. S. Kachur, V. G. Piryatinskaya

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Abstract

With the help of group theory analysis of absorption spectra of the transition 3H63F3 of Tm3+ ion in TmAl3(BO3)4 crystal, measured at several temperatures from 1.8 till 293 K, it has been shown, that the local symmetry of the Tm3+ environment is C3 and it decreases to C1 at a low temperature. Effective selection rules and polarizations of lines at high enough temperatures (when the line-width is larger than the splitting in C3 symmetry) have been obtained.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)254-258
Number of pages5
JournalPhysics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics
Volume371
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 12 Nov 2007
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
The work was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Researches, grant No. 07-02-704.

Keywords

  • Rare earth compounds
  • Site symmetry
  • Spectroscopy

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