A review of the relevant data concerning the decay properties of the Cu þ fluorescence in alkali halides is presented. A critical analysis of the experiments reported in literature shows that the problem of the correct and complete interpretation of the Cu þ fluorescence was made complicated in the past essentially because of historical reasons. The validity of the decay models was ascertained by the authors by simultaneously detecting both lifetime and quantum yield during each set of measurements as a function of the temperature.

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