Absorption Spectra of Cr3+ in Al2O3 Part B. Experimental Studies of the Zeeman Effect and Other Properties of the Line Spectra

The absorption intensities, widths and wave-numbers of R 1 , R 2 and B 1 B 2 lines of Cr 3+ in ruby for the polarized light E ⊥ C 3 and E // C 3 are experimentally studied at 20°K and 4.2°K. Zeeman effect is also studied, using a magnetic field H 0 =24,000 φ, for both R and B lines. The Zeeman effect has not been observed yet for the B lines, while Lehmann has already observed the Zeeman effect for R lines. In our results of R lines, the quantitative aspects of Lehmann's experiment are improved. The comparison is made with the theoretical results given in Part A and it is shown that nice agreements can be obtained when suitable assignments of the spectra are adopted and when fairly large g -shifts of the excited states are introduced.