STARK COMPONENTS OF LOWER-LYING MANIFOLDS AND EMISSION CROSS-SECTIONSOF PRINCIPAL INTERMANIFOLD AND INTER-STARK TRANSITIONS OF TRIVALENT NEODYMIUM IN STRONTIUM FLUOROVANADATE

A detailed characterization of the Stark components of the I-4(9/2) an d I-4(11/2) manifolds have been performed using the room-temperature f luorescence spectra for the F-4(3/2)-->I-4(9/2) and F-4(3/2)-->I-4(11/ 2) transitions of Nd3+ in strontium fluorovanadate, Sr-5(VO4)(3)F, cry stals. The emission cross sections of the lower-lying intermanifold tr ansitions as well as the major inter-Stark transitions, R(1)-->X(1)(88 6.2 nm), R(1)-->X(5)(942.8 nm), and R(1)-->Y-1(1065.2 nm) of Nd3+:Sr-5 (VO4)(3)F, have been also determined and compared with those of Nd3+:Y AG.