Ceramic and glass-ceramic lasers

Annales de Chimie: Science des Materiaux

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 21-33

  Mortier, Michel ^a   Vivien, Daniel ^a  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION; DOPING (ADDITIVES); GLASS CERAMICS; Q SWITCHING; REFRACTORY METAL COMPOUNDS; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

GLASS-CERAMIC LASERS;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

CRYSTALLIN; GLASS; ION; OXIDE;

CERAMICS; CRYSTAL; CRYSTALLIZATION; LASER; LUMINESCENCE; NEODYMIUM LASER; REVIEW; SOLID STATE; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0344012941     PISSN: 01519107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anncsm.2003.09.003     Document Type: Article

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