Some optical properties of Cr4+-doped crystals

Optical Materials

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 117-127

  Lipavsky, B ^a,b   Kalisky, Y ^b   Burshtein, Z ^b   Shimony, Y ^c   Rotman, S ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b ROTEM INDUSTRIES LTD   (Israel)

^c NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTER NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ENERGY ABSORPTION; EXCITONS; FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT POLARIZATION; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; Q SWITCHING;

CHROMIUM DOPED CRYSTALS; EXCITED STATE ABSORPTION; FORSTERITE; PULSED PUMP PROBE TECHNIQUE; TRANSMISSION SATURATION MEASUREMENTS;

CHROMIUM;

EID: 0033208135     PISSN: 09253467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-3467(99)00020-8     Document Type: Article

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