Spectroscopic and stimulated emission characteristics of Nd3+ in transparent Y2O3 ceramics

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 643-650

  Kumar, G A ^a   Lu, Jianren ^b   Kaminskii, Alexander A ^b   Ueda, Ken Ichi ^b   Yagi, Hideki ^c   Yanagitani, Takakimi ^c  

^a Piscataway   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^c Takuma Works   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cavity loss; Emission cross section; Laser oscillation; Nd:Y2O3; Quantum efficiency; Transparent ceramic

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NEODYMIUM; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SINTERING; STIMULATED EMISSION; VACUUM APPLICATIONS; YTTRIUM COMPOUNDS;

CAVITY LOSS; EMISSION CROSS SECTION; LASER OSCILLATION; VACUUM SINTERING TECHNIQUE;

CERAMIC MATERIALS;

EID: 33744828746     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2006.875868     Document Type: Article

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