Crystal Field and Hyperfine Structure of Er in YPO:Er Single Crystals: High-Resolution Optical and EPR Spectros
Crystal Field and Hyperfine Structure of Er in YPO:Er Single Crystals: High-Resolution Optical and EPR Spectros
Crystal Field and Hyperfine Structure of Er in YPO:Er Single Crystals: High-Resolution Optical and EPR Spectros
Crystal field and hyperfine structure of 167 Er3+ in YPO4 :Er single
crystals: High-resolution optical and EPR spectroscopy
M. N. Popova,1 S. A. Klimin,1,* S. A. Moiseev,2 K. I. Gerasimov,2 M. M. Minnegaliev,2 E. I. Baibekov,2,3
G. S. Shakurov,4 M. Bettinelli,5 and M. C. Chou6
1
Institute of Spectroscopy, Russian Academy of Sciences, 5, Fizicheskaya Str., Troitsk, Moscow 108840, Russian Federation
2
Kazan Quantum Center, Kazan National Research Technical University named after A.N. Tupolev-KAI, 10 K. Marx Str.,
Kazan 420111, Russia
3
Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University, 18 Kremlyovskaya Str., Kazan 420008, Russia
4
Zavoisky Physical Technical Institute, FRC Kazan Scientic Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences,
ul. Sibirskii trakt 10/7, Kazan, 420029, Russia
5
Dipartimento di Biotecnologie, University of Verona and INSTM, Strada Le Grazie 15, Verona 37134, Italy
6
Department of Materials and Optoelectronic Science, Center of Crystal Research,
National Sun Yat-Sen University, 70, Lien-Hai Rd., Kaohsiung 80424, Taiwan
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.99.235151
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has the nuclear spin I = 7/2 and the natural abundance of Multimode
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22.87%. Other five stable isotopes, the most abundant of them fiber
being 166 Er (33.503%), are even ones with I = 0 and, hence,
have no HFS of electronic levels. The HFS can be calculated
with the help of wave functions of CF levels obtained from
CF calculations. However, CF parameters available in litera- D
ture are contradictory [24–27]. We decided to perform high-
resolution optical absorption and luminescence spectroscopy
measurements of Er : YPO4 single crystals, with the aims Glass filter
(i) to look for the HFS in the spectra and (ii) to determine
reliable CF parameters for modeling the HFS. 4K cryostation
The paper is organized in the following way. In Sec. II Montana Instruments
we describe the crystal growth and provide information on
B
the equipment and procedures used to measure the EPR and
optical spectra. Experimental data on energies, symmetries, Lock-in
AWG
g factors, and hyperfine structure of the crystal-field levels amplifier ADC
of Er 3+ in Er : YPO4 obtained from the analysis of high-
resolution transmission, luminescence, and EPR spectra are Reference laser
interferometer Laser
presented in Sec. III. Section IV reports on the crystal-field
controller
calculations and the spectra modeling on this basis. Section V AOM
briefly summarizes the results.
90/10 Laser
II. EXPERIMENTAL DETAILS
FIG. 1. Experimental setup for recording the absorption and
Yttrium orthophosphate single crystals YPO4 doped with luminescence spectra and kinetics of the luminescence (including
Er 3+ ions with concentrations 0.005, 0.01, 0.1, 0.2, 0.4, and in a magnetic field B). AOM – acousto-optic modulator, ADC –
0.7 at.% were grown by the flux method using Pb2 P2 O7 analog-to-digital converter, AWG – arbitrary-waveform generator,
as a high-temperature flux [28]. The procedure involves the PMT – photomultiplier, D – detector (avalanche photodiode Thorlabs
dissolution of the rare-earth oxides Er 2 O3 and Y2 O3 in molten APD110C/M), Laser – dye TekhnoScan DYE-SF-077 or Ti:Sapphire
Pb2 P2 O7 at high temperature with spontaneous nucleation (TIS-SF-777) or diode (CTL 1500 - TOPTICA Photonics AG) lasers.
and crystal growth of YPO4 achieved by slow cooling of the Green dashed lines denote USB2.0 connections and black dashed
solution. High purity Y2 O3 and Er 2 O3 , (NH4 )2 HPO4 and PbO lines are for electrical 50- connections between devices.
were employed as starting materials. The melt was heated in
the platinum crucible to a maximum temperature of 1300 ◦ C
and then cooled to 950 ◦ C with a rate of 2 ◦ C/h. In all cases, k denote the electric field and the wave vector of the incident
the flux was dissolved using hot diluted HNO3 . Single crystals radiation, respectively, c is the C4 axis of the crystal).
of good optical quality elongated in the direction of the c axis The spectra and kinetics of the luminescence excited by a
of the tetragonal structure were obtained. The oriented plates dye laser TekhnoScan DYE-SF-077 tuned to the 4 I15/2 (71 ) →
cut from the single crystals with the fixed direction of the c 4
F 9/2 (61 ) (15279.49 cm −1 ) transition of Er 3+ were regis-
axis had thicknesses from 0.025 to 0.07 cm. tered. A simplified scheme of the experimental setup is
The grown crystals were characterized by the EPR method. shown in Fig. 1. The intensity of the laser beam was modu-
The measurements were accomplished with a Bruker EMX lated and the pulses were prepared using an acousto-optical
plus spectrometer in the X band at 5 K and a homemade modulator (AOM). The samples were cooled in a Mon-
broadband EPR spectrometer [29] in the frequency range tana Instruments helium-free optical cryostat system. The
36–76 GHz at 4.2 K. In the latter case, generators 4-141 luminescence decay was detected with a Thorlabs avalanche
and 4-142 were used as microwave radiation sources. In the photodiode APD110C/M. Spectra of luminescence were mea-
X band, in addition to erbium, Fe3+ ions were recorded (at sured using M833 Solar Laser Systems monochromator and a
low power level of the microwave generator), as well as weak thermoelectrically cooled photomultiplier (PMT) Hamamatsu
signals from Gd3+ (at a high amplification). H12397-75.
Polarized high-resolution (up to 0.005 cm−1 ) transmission In the high-resolution magneto-optical absorption studies,
spectra were measured in broad spectral (5 000–21 000 cm−1 ) the samples of Er : YPO4 were cooled and subjected to mag-
and temperature (4–300 K) ranges using a Fourier spec- netic fields B||c and B⊥c, the values of which could be set
trometer Bruker IFS 125HR and a closed-cycle cryostat between −0.7 and 0.7 T using an add-on magneto-optical
Cryomech ST 403. The temperature was stabilized within module of the Montana Instruments cryostation. Tunable
±0.2 K. The absolute precision of the wave-number scale single-frequency Ti:Sapphire (TIS-SF-777) and diode (CTL
was 0.002–0.02 cm−1 , depending on the spectral resolution 1500 - TOPTICA Photonics AG) lasers were used to measure
used. The spectra were registered for linearly π -polarized the Zeeman splitting of several lines in the 4 I15/2 → 4 I9/2 and
(E ⊥ c⊥k) or σ -polarized (Ec⊥k) incident radiation (E and 4
I15/2 → 4 I13/2 optical transitions of Er 3+ , respectively.
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FIG. 3. Luminescence spectra of the YPO4 : Er 3+ (0.2 at. %) single crystal in the regions of (a) 4 I13/2 → 4 I15/2 and (b) 4 I11/2 → 4 I15/2
optical transitions at different temperatures indicated above the spectra. Unpolarized (black lines), σ - (red line), and π - (blue line) polarized
luminescence.
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TABLE I. Energies (cm−1 ) at 5 K and irreducible representations of CF levels of Er 3+ ions in Er : YPO4 crystals for excited multiplets.
Data from the absorption (Abs.) and luminescence (Lum.) experiments are compared with the results of calculations (Calc.).
This work This work Ref. [24] This work Ref. [24]
Abs. Lum. Calc. Abs. Calc. Abs. Calc. Abs.
4
I13/2 → 46 + 37 4
F9/2 → 26 + 37 4
F5/2 → 26 + 7
61 6531.6 6531.6 6537 71 15241.5 15245 15241.5 61 22161 22162.1
7 1
6542.0 6542 6545 7 2
15270.8 15280 15270.9 71
22193 22191.6
72 6599.9 6600 61 15279.5 15281 15279.4 62 22191 22195.5
62 6616.8 6617 73 15325.1 15324 15325 4
F3/2 → 6 + 7
63 6637.8 6641 62 15367.8 15367 15367.8 61 22520 22517
7 3
6669.5 6676 4
S3/2 → 6 + 7 72
22548 22550.7
64 6692.3 6694 61 18367.3 18373 18367.1 2
H9/2 → 26 + 37
4
I11/2 → 36 + 37 71 18416.7 18409 18416.3 61 24485 24502.7
61 10201.1 10201 10194 2
H11/2 → 36 + 37 62 24548 24539
7 1
10216.3 10216 10209 61 19087.3 19095 19087.1 71
24539 24541.4
62 10239.6 10240 71 19130 19119.7 72 24608 24623.3
72 10245.2 10245 62 19145.8 19157 19145.8 73 24671 24656.2
63 10255. 10258 72 19183.3 19185 19183.4 4
G11/2 → 36 + 37
7 3
10270.4 10272 6 2
19202.2 19184 19201.8 61 26313 26310.3
4
I9/2 → 26 + 37 7 19218 19235.3 71 26337 26332.5
61 12378.2 12371 4
F7/2 → 26 + 27 62 26370 26353.3
62 12432.7 12442 71 20489 20484.7 72 26411 26405.4
7 1
12444.1 12446 61 20496.3 20492 20496.3 62
26455 26466.6
72 12530.6 12527 62 20557.8 20556 20557.6 73 26476 26485.5
73 12582.6 12595 72 20573.7 20569 20573.5
multiplet, the latter were studied also by inelastic neutron band (g0 = 6.42 and g0⊥ = 4.80) is in good agreement with
[31] and resonance Raman [32] scatterings. Table III lists also the values from the literature [35,36].
these data. We now determine the g factors of several excited states
Most of the measured energies of the CF sublevels of from the analysis of the high-resolution absorption spectra of
the ground and excited multiplets of the Er 3+ ion and the the Er : YPO4 crystal placed into the magnetic fields B||c and
corresponding irreducible representations determined from B⊥c. Figure 4(a) shows, as an example, the Zeeman splitting
the polarized spectra (see Tables I and III) coincide with of the absorption line 6531.6 cm−1 in a magnetic field B||c.
the earlier published data [24]. The energy value 138.3 cm −1 The Zeeman splitting of the corresponding Kramers doublets
announced from neutron scattering experiments on ErPO4 and allowed transitions between them are displayed in the
[31] disagrees with other data. scheme of Fig. 4(b). Two (four) transitions are allowed in
Measurements of the luminescence kinetics from the 4 I13/2 the σ (π ) polarization. Of the four π -polarized transitions,
level revealed a single decay time τ = 5.1 ± 0.2 ms at 5 K two are ED transitions and the other two are MD ones
(see details in the Appendix). For a comparison, erbium (we should note that for the 4 I15/2 → 4 I13/2 transition, which
luminescence decay time 2.3 ms was observed in YVO4 :Er is MD allowed in the free Er 3+ ion, the intensity of the
(2.5 at.%) [34]. MD transitions between CF levels can be comparable with
that of the ED transitions). It follows from the observed
Zeeman spectral pattern [see Fig. 4(a)], in which the σ -
B. EPR and magneto-optical spectroscopy: g factors
polarized line splitting νσ coincides with the smallest of
We confirm the values of the ground-state g factors from the two splittings of the π -polarized line, that the g factors
the angular dependences of the EPR spectra measured in the X of the ground and excited states have different signs (if
the signs were the same, the σ -polarized lines would show
TABLE II. Selection rules for the ED and MD optical transitions a coincidence with the largest splitting of the π -polarized
of Kramers ions in the D2d symmetry sites.
line). In this case, νσ = 0 − ex = νπMD ; νπED = 0 +
ex , where 0 = |g0 |μB B and ex = |gex |μB B are the Zee-
D2d 6 7
man splittings of the ground and excited Kramers doublets,
6 σED,MD πMD σED πED,MD respectively, and μB is the Bohr magneton. The inset of
7 σED πED,MD σED,MD πMD Fig. 4(a) shows the field dependences of the Zeeman splitting
in the σ and π polarizations. From a linear fitting of these
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TABLE III. Energies E (cm−1 ) and symmetries of CF levels of the Er 3+ ions in Er : YPO4 , Er : LuPO4 , and ErPO4 crystals for the
ground multiplet 4 I15/2 .
dependences, we find values and signs of gex , under an as- C. Hyperfine structure in the EPR
sumption that g0 is positive. A summary of the results is given and optical spectra of Er : YPO4
in Table IV. Figure 5(a) displays high-resolution EPR spectra of
a YPO4 :Er (0.1%) sample obtained with both a Bruker
FIG. 4. (a) Zeeman splitting of the spectral line 6531.6 cm−1 FIG. 5. (a) EPR spectra of the YPO4 :Er (0.1%) single crystal in
corresponding to the 71 (4 I15/2 ) → 61 (4 I13/2 ) optical transition of the B||c orientation of an external magnetic field, at the frequencies
Er 3+ in YPO4 : Er (0.01 at.%) subjected to a magnetic field B||c, (1) 9.4 GHz; (2) 36.3 GHz, (3) 48 GHz, (4) 60.2 GHz. T = 5 K
B = 0.21 T in the σ (red lower trace) and π (blue upper trace) (1), T = 4.2 K (2–4). Inset: spectrum 1 in more detail; blue vertical
polarizations. Inset: Field dependences of the Zeeman splittings νσ lines represent positions of the calculated hyperfine components.
(red symbols) and νπ (blue symbols and line) in the σ and π (b) Calculated hyperfine energy levels corresponding to the ground
polarizations, respectively. T = 5 K. (b) Scheme showing Zeeman 4
I15/2 (71 ) Kramers doublet in a magnetic field. The arrows indicate
splitting of the corresponding Kramers doublets and allowed transi- EPR transitions at the frequency 9.4 GHz. The calculations are
tions between them. detailed in Sec. IV.
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TABLE IV. Experimental and calculated values of the g factors for Er 3+ in Er : YPO4 . Signs of g were determined relative to the ground
Kramers doublet.
Type of the
transition the ground
g g⊥ state 71 (4 I15/2 )
−1
Multiplet E , cm Exp. Calc. Exp. Calc. π -pol. σ -pol.
6.42 ± 0.02 4.80 ± 0.02
4
I15/2 0 71 6.438 [35] 6.78 4.803 [35] 4.71 – –
6.42 [36] 4.81 [36]
4
I13/2 6531.6 61 −2.6 ± 0.1 −2.65 6.8 ± 0.1 6.93 ED,MD ED
6542 71 4.5 ± 0.1 4.48 −4.4 ± 0.1 −4.59 MD ED,MD
6600 72 −5.2 ± 0.1 −5.56 3.7 ± 0.1 3.96 MD ED,MD
6617 62 −6.0 ± 0.1 −5.87 −4.3 ± 0.1 −4.12 ED,MD ED
4
I9/2 12378 61 −3.2 ± 0.1 −2.72 3.0 ± 0.1 3.50 ED,MD ED
12432.7 62 1.3 ± 0.1 1.00 −3.0 ± 0.1 −3.50 ED,MD ED
EMX-plus X-band and a homemade broadband spectrometers particular, the spectra of Er : YPO4 with erbium concentra-
in the B||c geometry. Well-resolved hyperfine structure (HFS) tions 0.1, 0.2, and 0.4 at.% [see Fig. 6(c)] did not change
of the 167 Er isotope with nuclear spin I = 7/2 is observed. when the spectrometer’s resolution was lowered from 0.005 to
The inset of Fig. 5(a) demonstrates in more detail the HFS in 0.02 cm−1 . The observed HFS provides a tool for checking the
the EPR spectrum at the frequency 9.4 GHz and the scheme quality of the crystal-field parameters obtained in the crystal-
of Fig. 5(b) illustrates the origin of this HFS. Measurements field calculations based on our high-resolution spectroscopy
at higher frequencies show that the widths of the erbium lines data and described in the next section.
do not change.
In optical spectra, only partly resolved HFS is observed, IV. CALCULATIONS OF ENERGY LEVELS, SPECTRA,
due to relatively large inhomogeneous line broadening. In AND HYPERFINE STRUCTURE
Fig. 6(a), where the 6531.6 cm −1 absorption line of Er 3+ in
YPO4 :Er (0.005 at.%) registered at a low temperature and a The Hamiltonian of the Er 3+ ion operating in the basis of
zero external field by a tunable single-frequency laser with the 364 states of the ground 4 f 11 electronic configuration contains
spectral resolution ∼5 × 10−5 cm−1 is presented, the finest the free-ion standard Hamiltonian HFI and the crystal-field
spectral details have the width ∼0.005 cm−1 . These details Hamiltonian HCF :
smear out with growing erbium concentration in Er : YPO4 ,
H = HFI + HCF . (1)
due to an increasing inhomogeneous line broadening. In
HFI is constructed from the effective operators following
conventional notations of the spectroscopic theory of lan-
thanides [37]:
HFI = H0 + F k fk + ζ ASO + αL(L + 1)
k=0,2,4,6
+ βG(G2 ) + γ G(R7 ) + T i ti
i=2,3,4,6,7,8
+ M jmj + Ps ps . (2)
j=0,2,4 s=2,4,6
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F2 F4 F6 ζ α β γ T2 T3 T4
96589 67938 54360 2366.3 17.60 −577 1813 465 52.5 92
T6 T7 T8 M0 M2 M4 P2 P4 P6
−234 275 308 4.01 2.86 1.95 657 434 0
p K Bkp
Present work Ref. [24] Ref. [25]
2 0 112.9 141 185
4 0 10.3 18.1 18
4 4 776 837 800
6 0 −43.0 −40.4 −40.4
6 4 56.1 89 88
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TABLE VII. Energy levels and allowed i → f transitions between the hyperfine sublevels of the ground 4 I15/2 (71 ) and excited 4 I13/2 (61 )
Kramers states in π and σ polarizations. Values of i are determined by the first column, while the allowed f values are presented in the last
three columns. Energies of the hyperfine sublevels shown in Fig. 7 are given with respect to the mean energy of the Kramers doublet. The
energies of the doublet states are in bold.
Allowed transitions to
Energy of i-th Energy of f -th the excited state f
HF level No. state of 4 I15/2 (71 ), GHz state of 4 I13/2 (61 ), GHz πED πMD σED
1 −1.37 −1.86 4, 6 3, 5, 7 3, 5, 7
2 −1.23 −1.81 3, 7 2, 4, 6, 8 2, 4, 6, 8
3 −1.14 −1.64 2, 8 1, 3, 7, 9 1, 3, 7, 9
4 −1.11 −1.33 9 2, 8 2, 8
5 0.93 −0.70 1 2, 8 2, 8
6 0.96 1.35 2, 8 1, 3, 7, 9 1, 3, 7, 9
7 1.06 1.65 3, 7 2, 4, 6, 8 2, 4, 6, 8
8 1.20 1.81 4, 6 3, 5, 7 3, 5, 7
9 1.37 1.86 5 4, 6 4, 6
the line of Ref. [43]. In Figs. 6(a) and 6(b), the results of orthophosphate single crystals doped with erbium. The
calculations are represented by the bars located at calculated Er : YPO4 samples with Er concentrations 0.005, 0.01, 0.1,
frequencies and of the highs proportional to the calculated 0.2, 0.4, and 0.7 at.% were studied. Zeeman splittings in the
line strengths. In Figs. 6(c) and 6(d), the linewidth (full width 4
I15/2 → 4 I9/2 and 4 I15/2 → 4 I13/2 absorption manifolds
at half height) of 7 × 10−3 cm−1 (200 MHz) was attributed in magnetic fields B||c and B⊥c, as well as X-band
to each hyperfine component of the line, to account for and high-frequency (36–76 GHz) EPR spectra were also
the inhomogeneous broadening. There is a good agreement investigated.
between the experimental and calculated hyperfine patterns Energies and symmetries of 40 crystal-field Kramers dou-
in the optical spectra, which testifies a good quality of the blets and g factors for the levels 6531.6, 6542, 6600, 6617,
crystal-field parameters obtained in our study. 12378, and 12432.7 cm −1 were determined. These data were
In order to account for the hyperfine structure in the EPR taken as a base for the CF calculations. We have observed the
spectra corresponding to microwave transitions within the electron-nuclear hyperfine structure in the EPR and optical
lowest Kramers doublet 4 I15/2 (71 ) (Fig. 5), the hyperfine spectra of Er : YPO4 and were able to successfully model it
interaction operator (4) and Zeeman interaction with the ex- using the wave functions obtained from the CF calculations.
ternal magnetic field B0 , HZ = −μB0 , were projected onto The results of the present study pave the way for potential
the lowest two eigenstates of the Hamiltonian (1): applications in quantum electronics and quantum information
processing at telecom wavelength.
H
= HZ + HHFM = g μB B0z Sz
+ g⊥ μB (B0x S
x + B0y S
y )
+ A Sz
Iz + A⊥ (S
x Ix + S
y Iy ), (6)
where S
= 1/2 is the effective spin, g = 6.78 and g⊥ =
4.71 are the calculated g factors, A = 730 MHz and A⊥ =
509 MHz are the hyperfine parameters, all corresponding
to the lowest Kramers doublet. These calculated values
are in reasonable agreement with the EPR data published
previously [35].
Calculated positions of the hyperfine components in the
EPR spectra of Er : YPO4 (shown in the inset of Fig. 5) prac-
tically coincide with the experimental ones. Based on good re-
sults of modeling the hyperfine patterns in the high-resolution
optical and EPR spectra of Er 3+ in YPO4 , we suggest that
a reliable set of energies of hyperfine levels (necessary for
applications in quantum technologies) can be calculated using
the crystal field and other parameters obtained in this study.
V. SUMMARY
We have performed high-resolution (up to ∼5 × FIG. 8. 4 I13/2 → 4 I15/2 luminescence excitation and decay of
10 cm−1 ) broadband (5 000–21 000 cm−1 ) temperature-
−5
Er in YPO4 :Er (0.1 at.%) at T = 5 K. Inset: Luminescence decay
3+
dependent (5–300 K) polarized transmission and infrared in a logarithmic scale and exponential approximation (red line) with
(0.9–1.6 μm) luminescence measurements of yttrium lifetime 5.1 ± 0.2 ms.
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