Diagnostics of nonradiative defects in the bulk and surface of brewster-cut Ti:sapphire laser materials using photothermal radiometry

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2301-2310

  Vanniasinkam, Joseph ^a   Munidasa, Mahendra ^a   Othonos, Andreas ^b   Kokta, Milan ^c   Mandelis, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^c UNION CARBIDE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Nondestructive evaluation; Nonradiative energy conversion; Photothermal radiometry; Quality control; Solid state lasers

Indexed keywords

ENERGY CONVERSION; INFRARED RADIATION; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; OPTICALLY PUMPED LASERS; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOMETRY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

NONRADIATIVE ENERGY CONVERSION; PHOTOTHERMAL RADIOMETRY;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 0031375946     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.644114     Document Type: Article

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