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Optical Properties and Optical Spectroscopy of Rare Earth Ions in Solids

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The Franck-Condon principle plays an important role in understanding the nature of optical transitions in laser-active ions in solids.

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Ter-Mikirtychev, V.V. (2019). Optical Properties and Optical Spectroscopy of Rare Earth Ions in Solids. In: Fundamentals of Fiber Lasers and Fiber Amplifiers. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 181. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33890-9_2

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