Optical properties of Nd-doped rare-earth vanadates

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 26, 2010, Pages 4973-4978

  Zelmon, David E ^a   Northridge, Jessica M ^a   Lee, Julie J ^a   Currin, Kelly M ^a   Perlov, Dan ^b  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Crystal Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RARE EARTHS; REACTION KINETICS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SOLID STATE LASERS; TRANSITION METAL COMPOUNDS;

GADOLINIUM VANADATES; MEASUREMENTS OF; NONLINEAR OPTICAL ELEMENTS; RARE EARTH VANADATES; RARE-EARTH ORTHOVANADATES; SPECIAL PROPERTIES; THERMO-OPTIC COEFFICIENTS; YTTRIUM ORTHOVANADATE;

NEODYMIUM;

EID: 77957583035     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.004973     Document Type: Article

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