Recent advances in onshore produced ceramic laser gain materials

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6216, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Huie, Jean C ^a   Gentilman, Richard ^a   Stefanik, Todd ^a   Rockosi, Derrick ^a  

^a RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ceramic; Laser; Nd:YAG; YAG; Yb:YAG

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); GAIN CONTROL; LASERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS;

ND:YAG; YB:YAG; YTTRIUM ALUMINUM GARNET (YAG) MATERIALS;

CERAMIC MATERIALS;

EID: 33747369810     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.673007     Document Type: Conference Paper

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