Abstract
Four coloured diamonds, 1.7 MeV e-beam irradiated to a dose of 10 18e per sqcm and annealed around 900–930 °C, were investigated at room temperature using conventional photoluminescence (PL) and excitation spectra, and PL using 514.5 and 785 nm lasers. Interesting new observations are: (i) excitation spectra reveal energy transfer between NV 0 and NV − centers (ii) frequency up conversion, blue-green emission on excitation in 740–900 nm range, was observed in blue and lemon yellow samples. This appears to be due to two-photon absorption in GR1 centers and energy transfer to N3/H3 centres. (iii) Excitation with 514 nm line of Ar + laser, in pink and purple samples resulted in the appearance of an intense and broad emission at 267 nm with FWHM of 32 nm. This is rather close to 2 ν of the exciting line. It is identified as second harmonic generation (SHG) due to a synergistic effect of strain induced birefringence and resonant absorption which facilitated phase matching. The 785 nm excited anti-Stokes PL contained a frequency up converted band in 620 nm region having extensive closely spaced structure like in the case of ‘whispering gallery modes’ due to spheroid inclusions.
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