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Dielectric crystals doped with Ce^3+, Eu^2+, Sm^2+, and Yb^2+ display broadband 5d-to-4f emission, and are candidate solid-state tunable laser materials. The absorption and emission wavelengths, however, are very host sensitive, and a better understanding of 5d crystal-field interactions is needed in order to design lasing materials. This paper focuses on the 5d energy levels of Ce^3+ in an octahedral complex. A phenomenological model is proposed for the bond-distance dependence of these levels based on first-principles expressions derived by others for contributions to the crystal-field energies. The magnitudes of these contributions are estimated for the CeF₆ complex.
Aull et al. (Sat,) studied this question.