Cryogenic temperature characteristics of Verdet constant on terbium gallium garnet ceramics

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 11255-11261

  Yasuhara, Ryo ^a,c   Tokita, Shigeki ^b   Kawanaka, Junji ^c   Kawashima, Toshiyuki ^a   Kan, Hirofumi ^a   Yagi, Hideki ^d   Nozawa, Hoshiteru ^d   Yanagitani, Takagimi ^d   Fujimoto, Yasushi ^c   Yoshida, Hidetsugu ^c   Nakatsuka, Masahiro ^c  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KONOSHIMA CHEMICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FARADAY EFFECT; HELIUM; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; TERBIUM; THERMAL EFFECTS;

ROOM TEMPERATURE; TERBIUM GALLIUM GARNET CERAMICS; VERDET CONSTANT;

CRYOGENICS;

EID: 34548445533     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.011255     Document Type: Article

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