The effect of the impurity-defective composition of a diamond sample on the optical absorption at a neutral vacancy

Optical absorption spectra in the temperature range of 85-300 K and IR absorption spectra at room temperature of four diamond samples were studied. All samples demonstrated the GR1 vibronic system of a neutral vacancy. The absorption coefficient at the zero-phonon line at 1.673 eV decreased by the power law in the temperature range of 120-230 K. Outside this temperature range, the absorption on the neutral vacancy did not practically changed. The value of the absorption coefficient at the neutral vacancy correlated well with the densities of nitrogen impurity-defective NV-, N2Vand N4V-complexes.