Zeeman spectroscopy of Nd3+ ions in CsCdCl3 crystal

A transverse Zeeman study of the high-concentration Nd3+-doped CsCdCl3 crystal at 25 K in an external magnetic field of 7.8 T applied both parallel and perpendicular to the c axis, is presented here. Observed splittings of the transitions 4I9/2→4G5/2 and 4I9/2→2G7/2 of the 4f3 electronic configuration of Nd3+ ions are investigated in detail. From the observed splittings for B‖c, the parallel splitting factors s‖ are determined for the levels in these multiplets. But for B⊥c no resolvable splitting is found at any level in these two multiplets.