Domain-controlled laser ceramics toward Giant Micro-photonics

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1040-1050

  Taira, Takunori ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4F-ELECTRONS; DIODE-PUMPED; HIGH BRIGHTNESS; LASER CERAMICS; MICRO-PHOTONICS; MICROCHIP LASERS; MULTI-FUNCTIONS; PATTERNING PROCESS; TRANSPARENT LASER CERAMICS; WAVELENGTH EXTENSION; DIODE PUMPED SOLID-STATE LASER; HIGH BRIGHTNESS LASERS;

ANISOTROPY; SOLID STATE LASERS; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; HIGH POWER LASERS; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; NEODYMIUM LASERS; PUMPING (LASER); YTTRIUM ALUMINUM GARNET;

CERAMIC MATERIALS; LASER MATERIALS PROCESSING;

EID: 80053278362     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.1.001040     Document Type: Article

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