The authors have quantified the quenching of the luminescence lifetime of Er 3+ ions in organic complexes due to the presence of CH vibrational oscillators as a function of their distance from the ion. They have shown that any hydrogen atoms within a sphere of at least 20 Å from an erbium ion will cause sufficient quenching to prohibit its use in telecommunications applications.
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