Ceramic laser materials

Materials

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 258-277

  Sanghera, Jasbinder ^a   Kim, Woohong ^a   Villalobos, Guillermo ^a   Shaw, Brandon ^a   Baker, Colin ^a   Frantz, Jesse ^a   Sadowski, Bryan ^b   Aggarwal, Ishwar ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SOTERA DEFENSE SOLUTIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

100 KW; Ceramic composites; Ceramics; Laser materials; Microchip lasers; Non oxide ceramics; Ultrashort pulse

Indexed keywords

100 KW; CERAMIC COMPOSITES; CERAMICS; LASER MATERIALS; MICROCHIP LASERS; NONOXIDE CERAMICS;

MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; SINTERING; SOLID STATE LASERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES; YTTRIUM;

CERAMIC MATERIALS;

EID: 84863431849     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma5020258     Document Type: Article

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