Development of Nd: YAG ceramic lasers

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Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 507-517

  Lu, Jianren ^a   Lu, Junhua ^a   Murai, T ^a   Takaichi, K ^a   Uematsu, T ^a   Ueda, K ^a   Yagi, H ^b   Yanagitani, T ^b   Akiyama, Y ^c   Kaminskii, A A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b KONOSHIMA CHEMICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

^c TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^d SHUBNIKOV INSTITUTE OF CRYSTALLOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CERAMIC MATERIALS; EFFICIENCY; NANOCRYSTALS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PUMPING (LASER); SINGLE CRYSTALS; SINTERING;

END-PUMPED; NANOCRYSTAL-LINE TECHNOLOGY; ND:YAG CERAMIC; ND:YAG CERAMIC LASER; ND:YAG SINGLE CRYSTALS; RAW POWDERS; SINTERING METHODS; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES; VACUUM SINTERING; YAG;

YTTRIUM ALUMINUM GARNET;

EID: 85135416358     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21622701     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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