UV-visible Faraday rotators based on rare-earth fluoride single crystals: LiREF4 (RE = Tb, Dy,Ho, Er and Yb), PrF3 and CeF3

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 14460-14470

  Vasyliev, Valentyn ^a,b   Villora, Encarnacíon G ^a   Nakamura, Masaru ^a   Sugahara, Yoshiyuki ^b   Shimamura, Kiyoshi ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; GARNETS; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; TERBIUM; YTTERBIUM;

CZOCHRALSKI TECHNIQUE; FARADAY ROTATORS; FIGURE OF MERITS; FIGURES OF MERITS; MAGNETOOPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL QUALITIES; RARE-EARTH FLUORIDES; REFERENCE MATERIAL; SHORTER WAVELENGTH; UV-VISIBLE; VACUUM ULTRAVIOLETS; WAVELENGTH REGIONS;

SINGLE CRYSTALS;

FLUORIDE; LANTHANIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

FLUORIDES; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METALS, RARE EARTH; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 84863749332     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.014460     Document Type: Article

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