This book gives a first and comprehensive summary on a promising new topic. Laser systems made of ceramic materials offer the thermal advantages of ceramicmaterials while maintaining excellent optical properties. INDICE: 1 Introduction and history - Current status of lasers based on nanocrystalline ceramics - History of laser ceramics 2 Fabrication - Modern fabrication processes of laser ceramics (including of all possible steps) - Composite ceramics - Grains and grain-boundary structure and its local chemistry 3 Physics of laser ceramics - Physical properties of modern laser ceramic based oncubic oxides with garnet and sesquioxide structure - Spectroscopic propertiesof laser ceramics based on cubic C-type sesquioxides - Spectroscopic properties of Nd3+ and Yb3+ ions in Y3Al5O12 co-doped with Cr and Ca(Mg) ions 4 Nonlinear-laser properties - Raman scattering in ceramics based on of cubic oxides with garnet and C-type sesquioxide structure 5 Laser properties of modern highly transparent oxide ceramics - Y3Al5O12:Nd3+ ceramic lasers - Y3Al5O12:Yb3+ ceramic lasers - Y3Al5O12:Er3+ ceramic lasers - Y3(Al,Sc)2Al3O12:Yb3+ ceramic lasers - Y2O3:Nd3+ ceramic lasers - Y2O3:Yb3+ ceramic lasers - Sc2O3:Yb3+ ceramic lasers - Lu2O3:Yb3+ ceramic lasers - YGdO3:Nd3+ ceramic lasers 6 Future prospects of highly-transparent ceramics - High-power ceramic lasers for industrial applications - High-power ceramic lasers for non-industrial and scientific applications - Femtosecond ceramic lasers for applications - Ceramic lasers forfusion drivers - Micro-chip and solid-state photonic devices - Lens materials- Lamp tubes - Optical ceramics - Scintillator ceramics for X-ray techniques Bibliography Subject index
- ISBN: 978-3-527-40692-0
- Editorial: Wiley-VCH
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 300
- Fecha Publicación: 01/12/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés