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Broadband and fine-structured luminescence in diamond facilitated by femtosecond laser driven electron impact and injection of “vacancy-interstitial” pairs

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Publication Date2021-02-22
JournalOptics Letters
AuthorsS. I. Kudryashov, Р. А. Хмельницкий, П. А. Данилов, Nikita Smirnov, A. O. Levchenko
InstitutionsBauman Moscow State Technical University, P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Citations23

Ultrafast heating of photoionized free electrons by high-numerical-aperture (0.25-0.65) focused visible-range ultrashort laser pulses provides their resonant impact trapping into intra-gap electronic states of point defect centers in a natural IaA/B diamond with a high concentration of poorly aggregated nitrogen impurity atoms. This excites fine-structured, broadband (UV-near-infrared) polychromatic luminescence of the centers over the entire bandgap. The observed luminescence spectra revealed substitutional nitrogen interaction with non-equilibrium intrinsic carbon vacancies, produced simultaneously as Frenkel “vacancy-interstitial” pairs during the laser exposure.

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