Strengthening of poly-crystalline (ceramic) Nd:YAG elements for high-power laser applications

Optical Materials

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 695-701

  Feldman, Revital ^a,b   Golan, Yuval ^b   Burshtein, Zeev ^b   Jackel, Steven ^a   Moshe, Inon ^a   Meir, Avi ^a   Lumer, Yaakov ^a   Shimony, Yehoshua ^a  

^a SOREQ NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTER   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Laser ceramics; Mechanical properties; Poly crystalline; Weibull analysis; Yag

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC MATERIALS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; FRACTURE; HIGH POWER LASERS; LASER APPLICATIONS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PUMPING (LASER); SINGLE CRYSTALS; TENSILE STRENGTH; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION; YTTRIUM ALUMINUM GARNET;

CHEMICAL ETCHING; FRACTURE PROBABILITY; GROUND COMPONENTS; LASER CERAMICS; LASER HEADS; ND : YAG LASERS; POLYCRYSTALLINE; WEIBULL ANALYSIS;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 80555138562     PISSN: 09253467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optmat.2010.09.013     Document Type: Conference Paper

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