Experimental estimates are made of absorption cross sections for forbidden
optical transitions from the ground state to long-lived excited states of P
, As, Sb, In, and Ga impurities in silicon and Te impurities in gallium pho
sphide. The results can be used to predict the possibility of long-waveleng
th stimulated emission being excited as a result of the population inversio
n of long-lived impurity states in these materials. (C) 2000 MAIK "Nauka/In
terperiodica".