Effect of hot acid etching on the mechanical strength of ground YAG laser elements

Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 839-846

  Feldman, Revital ^a,b   Shimony, Yehoshua ^a   Lebiush, Eyal ^a   Golan, Yuval ^b  

^a Nonlinear Optics Group   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

A. Optical materials; A. Oxides; D. Fracture; D. Mechanical properties; D. Optical properties

Indexed keywords

ETCHING; HIGH POWER LASERS; LASER HEATING; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PHOSPHORIC ACID;

CHEMICAL ETCHING; FLEXURE STRENGTH TEST; MICRO ROUGHNESS; ND:YAG RODS;

NEODYMIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 41949088957     PISSN: 00223697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpcs.2007.09.007     Document Type: Article

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