Optical properties and Faraday effect of ceramic terbium gallium garnet for a room temperature Faraday rotator

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 15181-15187

  Yoshida, Hidetsugu ^a,b   Tsubakimoto, Koji ^a,b   Fujimoto, Yasushi ^a   Mikami, Katsuhiro ^a   Fujita, Hisanori ^a,b   Miyanaga, Noriaki ^a,b   Nozawa, Hoshiteru ^c   Yagi, Hideki ^c   Yanagitani, Takagimi ^c   Nagata, Yutaka ^b,d   Kinoshita, Hiroo ^b,e  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c KONOSHIMA CHEMICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

^d RIKEN   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC MATERIALS; FARADAY EFFECT; FIBER LASERS; GALLIUM; GARNETS; GLASS LASERS; HIGH ENERGY LASERS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; TERBIUM; YTTERBIUM;

1064 NM; FARADAY ROTATORS; HIGH PEAK POWER; INERTIAL FUSION ENERGY; LASER INDUCED; OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; OPTICAL SCATTERING; ROOM TEMPERATURE; VERDET CONSTANT; YAG LASER; YB FIBER LASERS;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 79961086796     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.015181     Document Type: Article

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