Terbium Compounds for Photon-Gated Persistent Spectral Hole Burning^*

C. W. Thiel, Y. Sun, R. L. Cone, R. W. Equall, R. L. Hutcheson, and R. M. Macfarlane

1. Title Slide

2. Photon-Gated Persistent Spectral Hole Burning

3. Photon-Gated PSHB in Terbium Compounds

4. Material Characterization I: Basic Spectroscopy

5. Results of Absorption Measurements

6. Crystal Field Shift of ⁹E(4f⁷5d) and ⁷E(4f⁷5d)

7. Material Characterization II: Excited State Absorption

8. Material Characterization III: Photoconductivity

9. Material Characterization IV: Holeburning

10. Tb:YAlO₃-A Potential Gating Material

11. Results and Plans

12. Acknowledgments and References

^*Slides from the Poster Presented by C. W. Thiel at the Optical Science and Laser Technology Conference, held in Bozeman, MT, on August 17-18, 1998