Abstract
The technique of fluorescence line narrowing is used to probe the inhomogeneously broadened 2E- 4A 2 transition of Cr 3+ in a silicate glass. The resultant sharp zero-phonon line is accompanied by a vibrational sideband which carries information about the range of vibrational modes in the glass and about the strength of the orbit-lattice interaction. The homogeneous broadening of the zero-phonon line is measured as a function of temperature and compared with the analogous broadening in Cr-doped crystals. The broadening of the zero-phonon line in the glass at high temperatures is attributed to a Raman relaxation mechanism such as is observed in crystals. At low temperatures, however, there is an additional broadening mechanism which has an approximately linear dependence on temperature and which has no analogue in crystalline materials.
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