Optical characteristics of Gd3Al2Ga3O12 : Ce single-crystal material

Nowadays new high-energy emission detection technologies with use of materials doped with rare-earth activators appear. There is still a great need for the development of new inorganic scintillators for medical application in particular detection of X-rays and -grays. In this case, the scintillation materials must meet basic requirements: high optical quality, high light output, fast response time and et al. One of these materials is the scintillation crystal Gd₃Al₂Ga₃O₁₂ : Ce (GAGG : Ce) investigated in this work. Analysis of the literature data showed that the optical characteristics of Gd3Al2Ga3O12 : Ce have not been studied enough. Hence the GAGG : Ce optical parameters (spectral transmission and reflection) were measured by optical spectroscopy in the wavelength range 200—750 nm. We calculated values of the absorption and extinction coefficients, refractive indices and the optical band gap of the Gd₃Al₂Ga₃O₁₂ : Ce. We used two spectrophotometric methods to determine the values of the refractive index: Brewster angles (jB) and the reflection coefficients at a small incidence angle of light close to normal (R0). The obtained results were used to build dispersion dependences graphs of the refractive indices.

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