Abstract
We have calculated a set of crystal-field parameters, Bnm, for Dy3+ through Yb3+ ions in M (II) sites in the crystal Sr5(PO4)3F (SFAP). The Bnm parameters were derived from lattice-sum calculations and from analyses of the optical spectra reported for Ho3+, Er3+, and Tm3+ individually doped into SFAP. These parameters were used to predict starting values, which were then semiempirically fitted for the crystal-field splitting of the multiplet manifolds of the sextet states of Dy3+(4f9), HJ6, and FJ6 and the doublet states of Yb3+(4f13) having manifolds F7/22 and F5/22. The results are compared with an analysis of the absorption and fluorescence spectra of Dy3+ and Yb3+ individually doped into SFAP. The rms deviation between 44 calculated and observed Stark levels of Dy3+ in Dy:SFAP is 10 cm−1. Without fitting of any parameters, the predicted crystal-field splitting of the Yb3+ multiplet manifolds is in reasonable agreement with the observed spectra for Yb:SFAP.
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