Spectral Diffusion of Optical Transitions in Doped Polymer Glasses below 1 deg K,
Abstract
Photochemical and photophysical hole burning is a well established technique for eliminating the large inhomogeneous broadening of electronic transitions, which dominates the optical spectroscopy of amorphous solids. With the possibility of measuring the quasi-homogeneous width Gamma sub qh of electronic transitions,dye molecules can be used as probes for dynamical processes in amorphous solids. The temperature dependence of the electronic linewidth of a given dye molecule in a crystalline lattice as compared to its linewidth in an amorphous solid shows large differences in both, its absolute value and its broadening behavior. This is due to the different origin of the dominant line broadening mechanisms: Interaction with phonons in a crystalline host and with two level systems (TLS) in an amorphous solid.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 22, 1992
- Accession Number
- ADP008229
Entities
People
- D. Haarer
- K. P. Muller
Organizations
- Stanford University