Rare earth oxide-aluminum oxide glasses for mid-range IR devices

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4957, Issue , 2003, Pages 16-22

  Weber, Richard ^a   Waynant, Ronald ^b   Ilev, Ilko ^b   Key, Thomas ^a   Nordine, Paul ^a  

^a Glass Products Division   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Fibers; Glass; Infrared; Rare earth aluminum oxide; Waveguide

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; FUSED SILICA; INFRARED RADIATION; LASER BEAMS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

BULK GLASS SYNTHESIS; RARE EARTH OXIDE-ALUMINUM OXIDE GLASSES;

GLASS FIBERS;

EID: 0344851503     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.485589     Document Type: Conference Paper

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