Abstract

Defects of the type of V K and Pb + centres were created in CsI:Pb under the 4.03 eV XeCl laser line irradiation at 10 K. After irradiation, the self-trapped and localized exciton emission excited by the same XeCl laser line was observed as a result of the recombination of electrons, optically released from Pb +, with the V K centres. A strongly superlinear dependence of the emission intensity on the excitation intensity was found for the 3.65 eV emission of the self-trapped exciton. A much weaker superlinearity was observed for the visible localized exciton emission. Optical amplification of the exciton emission was considered as the most probable reason of the observed phenomenon. At 10 K, optical gain G=3.74 was calculated for the self-trapped exciton emission.

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