Characterisation and improvements of the surface of optical materials: Relevance to waveguide lasers

Physica Status Solidi (A) Applied Research

Volumn 198, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 465-477

  Vazquez G V ^a   Townsend, P D ^b   Maghrabi, M ^c   Bauer, T ^d   Gonzalez, M ^e  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ÓPTICA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c HASHEMITE UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^d LASER ZENTRUM HANNOVER E V   (Germany)

^e CIEMAT   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL DEFECTS; CRYSTAL LATTICES; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ETCHING; LUMINESCENCE OF INORGANIC SOLIDS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE TREATMENT;

PHOTONIC MATERIALS; SURFACE PREPARATION; WAVEGUIDE LASERS;

OPTICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 0141494382     PISSN: 00318965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pssa.200306619     Document Type: Article

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