Three-dimensional grain boundary spectroscopy in transparent high power ceramic laser materials

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 5965-5973

  Ramirez, Mariola O ^a   Wisdom, Jeffrey ^b   Li, Haifeng ^c   Aung, Yan Lin ^d   Stitt, Joseph ^a   Messing, Gary L ^a   Dierolf, V ^e   Liu, Zhiwen ^c   Ikesue, Akio ^d   Byer, Robert L ^b   Gopalan, Venkatraman ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^d World Lab Co Ltd   (Japan)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAIN BOUNDARIES; HIGH POWER LASERS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; QUENCHING; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; TRANSPARENCY; VOLUME FRACTION;

GRAIN BOUNDARY SPECTROSCOPY; SELF FLUORESCENCE QUENCHING;

CERAMIC MATERIALS;

ARTICLE; CERAMICS; CHEMISTRY; LASER; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; TEMPERATURE;

CERAMICS; LASERS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 43049148031     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.005965     Document Type: Article

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