Spectroscopic and stimulated emission characteristics of Nd3+ in transparent YAG ceramics

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 747-758

  Kumar, G A ^a   Lu, Jianren ^a   Kaminskii, Alexander A ^a   Ueda, Ken Ichi ^a   Yagi, Hideki ^b   Yanagitani, Takagimi ^b   Unnikrishnan, N V ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b Takuma Works   (Japan)

^c MAHATMA GANDHI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Ceramic; Emission cross section; Gain coefficient; Laser oscillation; Neodymium YAG; Quantum efficiency

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SINTERING; SOLID STATE LASERS; SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VACUUM APPLICATIONS;

EMISSION CROSS SECTION; GAIN COEFFICIENT; JUDD-OFELT ANALYSIS; LASER OSCILLATION; MICROCHIP LASER; OPTICAL QUALITY; OPTICAL-TO-OPTICAL CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; RAMAN MEASUREMENTS; VACUUM SINTERING TECHNIQUES;

CERAMIC MATERIALS;

EID: 3042682382     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2004.828263     Document Type: Article

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