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• TITLE: Optical Characterization of Erbium Doped KY3F10 Fluoride Single Crystals

  AUTHORS: Saidi Khiari, Faiza Bendjedaa, Madjid Diaf

  KEYWORDS: Solid State Laser; Laser Spectroscopy; Laser Materials; Fluoride; Rare Earth; KY3F10 Crystals; Judd-Ofelt Theory

  JOURNAL NAME: Optics and Photonics Journal, Vol.3 No.1, March 22, 2013

  ABSTRACT: Preparation and optical characterisation of Erbium doped KY3F10 single crystals are reported. The crystals were grown using the Czochralski pulling technique. The single phase was controlled by X-ray diffraction analysis. Room temperature optical spectra were recorded between 200 and 1600 nm. They were used to fit the three phenomenological Judd-Ofelt (JO) parameters Ωt (t = 2, 4, 6). The emission transition probabilities, branching ratios and radiative lifetimes are then deduced. The possibility to use such material for laser emissions is discussed.