Abstract
This paper presents an investigation of Pr3+ doped in the D2 site of Y3Al5O12 (YAG), for the first time on a translucent ceramic sample free of spurious phases, impurity or pair sites. The optical study is carried out by optical absorption, excitation, and emission by selective excitation into 1D2 and 3P0, at different temperatures between 20 K and 60 K, in the 4 300-23 000 cm-1 range. A detailed account of the line assignments is given. 67 over 91 levels of the 4f2 configuration are determined. Several crystal field calculations within the ground configuration 4f2 and the larger matrix 4f2+4f6p are carried out. The energy level fit is slightly improved by configuration interaction. The 3P2 and 1I6 levels are strongly mixed together by the large 6th order crystal field parameters. In sintered samples with different Pr3+ concentrations, satellite lines with intensities increasing quadratically with the concentration are observed. A few weak lines forbidden in D2 site symmetry are observed.
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