“…This could lead to their application as inorganic pigments (1,10,19). The optical properties of several Mn(V)-doped phosphates or vanadates, such as Sr (PO ) Cl (5,11,12), Ba (PO ) Cl (1,2,4,13), Ca (VO )Cl (1,4,13,14), Li PO (4, 15) 2 , have already been studied, for the most part using #uorescence spectroscopy and will serve here as references for the assignment of the Mn(V) optical transitions.…”