Raman spectroscopy of fluorophosphate and fluorovanadate laser crystals

Alfons Schulte; Scott C. Buchter; Bruce H. T. Chai

doi:10.1117/12.206968

17 April 1995 Raman spectroscopy of fluorophosphate and fluorovanadate laser crystals

Alfons Schulte, Scott C. Buchter, Bruce H. T. Chai

Proceedings Volume 2380, UV and Visible Lasers and Laser Crystal Growth; (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.206968
Event: Photonics West '95, 1995, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

Fluorophospates and fluorovanadates are efficient solid state laser materials with promising new applications, especially for diode pumping of microchip lasers. High quality, low loss Nd doped Sr₅(PO₄)₃F, Ca₅(PO₄)₃F, Sr₅(VO₄)₃F and Ca₅(VO₄)₃F crystals were grown by the Czochralski technique. The lattice vibrations of the host material are studied by polarized Raman spectroscopy. The Raman active modes are determined by the irreducible representations of the space group of the crystal, and they provide insight to the crystal symmetry and chemical bonding. In all four compounds the internal and external vibrations are separated in the Raman spectra indicating that the internal binding of the (PO₄)^-3 and (VO₄)^-3 tetrahedra is different from the other ionic forces in the crystals. The group of internal modes in the fluorovanadates is shifted to lower frequencies by more than 100 cm^-1 compared with the fluorophosphates, though the x-ray structures are isomorphous. In addition there are remarkable changes in intensity, which may be attributed to interaction among the tetrahedral subunits in the hexagonal unit cell. The substitution of Sr for Ca causes frequency shifts in the vibrational modes. These are discussed with respect to the mass effect and changes in the coupling strength due to the differences between alkaline-earth cation binding and oxygen binding in the tetrahedral subunits. A comparison of the various substitutions makes assignments of the vibrational modes possible.

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Alfons Schulte, Scott C. Buchter, and Bruce H. T. Chai "Raman spectroscopy of fluorophosphate and fluorovanadate laser crystals", Proc. SPIE 2380, UV and Visible Lasers and Laser Crystal Growth, (17 April 1995); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.206968

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