Abstract
LSO-Ce fluorescence emission and excitation spectra and decay kinetics have been measured for UV, VUV and X-ray excitation at RT and 80 K. The features of the fluorescence excitation spectra of two types of cerium centres in the region 3 to 6 eV are analysed in the assumption of competitative absorption between them. It is shown that the centres can have similar absorption bands. Forbidden energy bandgap for LSO is evaluated to be not less than 6.5 eV.