High-resolution transient and permanent spectral hole burning in Ce3+ : Y2SiO5 at liquid helium temperatures
(2016) In Physical Review B 93(22).- Abstract
We perform hole burning with a low-drift stabilized laser within the zero phonon line of the 4f-5d transition in Ce3+:Y2SiO5 at 2 K. The narrowest spectral holes appear for small applied magnetic fields and are 6±4 MHz wide (FWHM). This puts an upper bound on the homogeneous linewidth of the transition to 3±2 MHz, which is close to lifetime limited. The spin level relaxation time is measured to 72±21 ms with a magnetic field of 10 mT. A slow permanent hole burning mechanism is observed. If the excitation frequency is not changed the fluorescence intensity is reduced by more than 50% after a couple of minutes of continuous excitation. The spectral hole created by the permanent hole burning has a width in the tens of MHz range, which... (More)
We perform hole burning with a low-drift stabilized laser within the zero phonon line of the 4f-5d transition in Ce3+:Y2SiO5 at 2 K. The narrowest spectral holes appear for small applied magnetic fields and are 6±4 MHz wide (FWHM). This puts an upper bound on the homogeneous linewidth of the transition to 3±2 MHz, which is close to lifetime limited. The spin level relaxation time is measured to 72±21 ms with a magnetic field of 10 mT. A slow permanent hole burning mechanism is observed. If the excitation frequency is not changed the fluorescence intensity is reduced by more than 50% after a couple of minutes of continuous excitation. The spectral hole created by the permanent hole burning has a width in the tens of MHz range, which indicates that a trapping mechanism occurs via the 5d state.
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- author
- Karlsson, Jenny LU ; Nilsson, Adam N. LU ; Serrano, Diana LU ; Walther, Andreas LU ; Goldner, Philippe ; Ferrier, Alban ; Rippe, Lars LU and Kröll, Stefan LU
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- 2016-06-21
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- Contribution to journal
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- published
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- Physical Review B
- volume
- 93
- issue
- 22
- article number
- 224304
- publisher
- American Physical Society
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- scopus:84976634845
- wos:000378104600001
- ISSN
- 1098-0121
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevB.93.224304
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- English
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- yes
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- 16e73838-f9f4-4ba8-b72c-d86798c54665
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