Ceramic laser materials: Past and present

Optical Materials

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 693-699

  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

Ceramics; Laser materials; Non oxide ceramics; Sesquioxides; Solid state lasers

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC MATERIALS; FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SINTERING; YTTRIUM ALUMINUM GARNET;

CERAMIC LASER MATERIALS; CERAMICS; COMPOSITE CERAMIC; HIGH PURITY POWDERS; LASER MATERIALS; NONOXIDE CERAMICS; POLYCRYSTALLINE CERAMICS; SESQUIOXIDES;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 84872954432     PISSN: 09253467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optmat.2012.04.021     Document Type: Article

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