Multiphonon decay in halide and oxide glasses at high-excitation density: a comparison

Francois E. Auzel; Fabienne Pelle

doi:10.1117/12.323402

28 September 1998 Multiphonon decay in halide and oxide glasses at high-excitation density: a comparison

Francois E. Auzel, Fabienne Pelle

Proceedings Volume 3416, Infrared Glass Optical Fibers and Their Applications; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.323402
Event: Lasers and Materials in Industry and Opto-Contact Workshop, 1998, Quebec, Canada

Abstract

The scientific and applied interest for so-called IR glasses, the very subject of this conference, are exclusively linked to such glass low phonon energy. It provides their IR transparency and good quantum efficiency when doped, trough reduced multiphonon interactions. Recently we have shown that multiphonon decay in oxide glasses could be reduced at high excitation level and that this was linked with a saturation of the accepting vibration modes. The saturation coming from a common phonon diffusion volume for two excited ions. In this paper, after recalling the basics of multiphonon nonradiative decay, we shall present recent result on rare-earth doped halide glasses in comparison with oxide glasses brings a different behavior with respect to oxide glasses: sometimes no saturation ca be observed for certain levels because accepting modes seem not to be excited whatever the phonon diffusion volume in the halide glass. In fact we show that up-conversion do play a role in fluoride glasses partially masking the phonon bottleneck. Because the key parameter for such multiphonon process is the ratio between inter electronic levels energy gap and the phonon energy, halide glasses can be said to behave homothetically with oxide glasses. This confirms a likely generalization for our theoretical approach and allows to predict likely similar behavior for other multiphonon processes described by energy gap laws such as sidebands and RI absorption bleaching, phonon assisted energy transfer saturation.

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Francois E. Auzel and Fabienne Pelle "Multiphonon decay in halide and oxide glasses at high-excitation density: a comparison", Proc. SPIE 3416, Infrared Glass Optical Fibers and Their Applications, (28 September 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.323402

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