Simple route to Nd:YAG transparent ceramics

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6216, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Barnakov, Yu A ^a   Veal, I ^a   Kabato, Z ^a   Zhu, G ^a   Bahoura, M ^a   Noginov, M A ^a  

^a NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Nd:YAG; Solid state laser materials; Transparent laser ceramics

Indexed keywords

ND:YAG; SOLID-STATE LASER MATERIALS; TRANSPARENT LASER CERAMICS;

CHARACTERIZATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

CERAMIC MATERIALS;

EID: 33747378754     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.689902     Document Type: Conference Paper

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