Abstract
Cubic crystalline hosts have been the proving ground for spectroscopic investigations in solids. Both experiments and theoretical models to interpret the data are simple in these high-symmetry systems. The same argument makes cubic systems more suitable for studies of excitation dynamics and electron-lattice coupling, which are of great significance for laser media. However, energy-transfer and upconversion studies are confined to noncubic systems because the parity-selection rules generally give prohibitively small transfer rates in a cubic environment. In this paper we present our results on energy transfer and upconversion in a cubic host.
© 1995 Optical Society of America
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