Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
9586303 Journal of Luminescence 2005 8 Pages PDF
Abstract
The fluorescence intensity of divalent samarium (Sm2+) ions doped in alkaline-earth fluorohalides were found to decrease under the optical excitation from a blue laser, a green laser or even a red laser. This photobleaching effect has a mysterious and unknown mechanism. After the bleaching effect happened, no Sm3+ ions generation, no relative spectral change in Sm2+ emissions and no lifetime decrease for the levels of Sm2+ ions could be observed. Under blue- or green-laser irradiation, the decrease of Sm2+ fluorescence showed a perfect biexponential function; however, when the exciting photon energy was lower than that of 5D0→7F0 transition, the photobleaching effect could not be observed anymore. An identical mechanism in the photobleaching with that in the spectral hole burning was proposed.
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