Vibrational anharmonicity of A-band related optical center and its temperature dependence studied by femtosecond laser excitation in bulk natural diamond

Sergey Kudryashov; Pavel Danilov; Nikita Smirnov; Volodymyr Kovalov

doi:10.15625/0868-3166/19292

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Sergey Kudryashov Lebedev Physical Institute https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6657-2739
Pavel Danilov Lebedev Physical Institute https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6304-1147
Nikita Smirnov Lebedev Physical Institute
Volodymyr Kovalov Lebedev Physical Institute https://orcid.org/0009-0004-8380-4748

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15625/0868-3166/19292

Keywords:

natural diamond, A-band, femtosecond laser, photoluminescence, temperature effect, dislocations

Abstract

Unusual A-band spectra with well-resolved quasi-periodical phonon progressions of multiple peaks (N\(\sim \)9) were excited in a natural diamond by 515-nm, 300-fs laser pulses at variable pre-heating temperatures of 24-200^oC. The non-radiative multi-phonon part of the relaxation path was comparable with the total relaxation energy (zero-phonon line energy), pointing out some extended defects (e.g., dislocations) as the recombination center of the A-band emission. The derived temperature dependences of the peak intensities, separations and half-widths of the separate spectral peaks in the A-band phonon progressions indicate the different trends for vibration-free zero-phonon transition and vibration-related lower-energy transitions to high vibrational levels of the bottom state – lower thermal damping and more softened phonon for the zero-phonon transition, also implying the extended defect origin of the A-band photoluminescence.

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