Transparent ceramics for high-energy laser systems

Optical Materials

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 511-518

  Sanghera, Jas ^a   Bayya, Shyam ^a   Villalobos, Guillermo ^a   Kim, Woohong ^a   Frantz, Jesse ^a   Shaw, Brandon ^a   Sadowski, Bryan ^b   Miklos, R ^b   Baker, Colin ^a   Hunt, Michael ^c   Aggarwal, Ishwar ^a   Kung, Fred ^b   Reicher, David ^d   Peplinski, Stan ^d   Ogloza, Al ^e   Langston, Peter ^e   Lamar, Chuck ^f   Varmette, Peter ^g   Dubinskiy, Mark ^h   Desandre, Lewis ⁱ  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b GTEC Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^d AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

^f US Army Space and Missile Defense Command   (United States)

^g SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^h U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ ONR Global   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Laser ceramics; Spinel; Transparent ceramics

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC MATERIALS; HIGH ENERGY LASERS; HOT PRESSING; MAGNESIUM COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SODIUM ALUMINATE; YTTRIUM ALUMINUM GARNET;

HIGH POWER SOLID-STATE LASERS; HIGH-ENERGY LASER SYSTEMS; HOSTILE ENVIRONMENTS; LASER CERAMICS; SPINEL; THERMO-OPTICAL PROPERTIES; TRANSPARENT CERAMIC; TRANSPARENT MAGNESIUM ALUMINATE SPINELS;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 78650572266     PISSN: 09253467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optmat.2010.10.038     Document Type: Article

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