Abstract
Abstract F-2 color center in LiF crystals is a unique specie of color centers concerning its photothermal stability, its broad absorption band, centered at 0.96 μm, and its broad emission band peaking at 1.12 μm, being a tunable laser operating in the range from 1.08 μm to 1.22 μm. The luminescence quantum efficiency of the main transition in the laser optical cycle was determined, at room temperature, and its value is 0.5 ± 0.1. This value was obtained using a method correlating the absorption, excitation and photoacoustic spectra. Besides, the luminescence quantum efficiency of the fundamental transition of the F-3 color center was determined. Also was estimated the energy transfer efficiency due to the overlapping of the F-3 center emission and the F-2 center absorption bands. Possible nonradiative deexcitation mechanisms accounting for the small luminescence quantum efficiency of the F-2 color centers in LiF are also discussed.
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