Development of hot-pressed and chemical-vapor-deposited zinc sulfide and zinc selenide in the United States for optical windows

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6545, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Harris, Daniel C ^a   Parsons, William F ^b   Pappis, James ^b   Donadio, Robert N ^b   Johnson, Carl ^b   Willingham, C B ^b   Taylor, Raymond L ^b   Roy, Donald W ^b   Hawkey, James E ^b   Hatch, S Edward ^b   Mckusick, Wayne ^b   Mauer, Paul B ^b   Carnall, Margaret ^b   DiBenedetto, Bernard ^b   Connolly, Joseph F ^b   Pickering, Michael A ^b   Goela, Jitendra S ^b   Purohit, Parul ^b   Eissler, Elgin ^b  

^a NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL INSTRUMENTS; CUSTOMER DEMAND; MECHANICAL CHARACTERISTICS; OPTICAL WINDOWS;

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; CRYSTAL GROWTH; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; HOT PRESSING; INFRARED TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL LOSSES; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

ZINC SULFIDE;

EID: 35648994921     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.716808     Document Type: Conference Paper

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