Transparent polycrystalline neodymium doped YAG: synthesis parameters, laser efficiency

Synthesis, vacuum sintering and dielectric characterization of zirconia (t-ZrO2) nanopowder

“…ZrO 2 exists in three different phases namely room temperature stable monoclinic phase and high temperature stable tetragonal and cubic phases (metastable phases at room temperature). The metastable phase of zirconia (t-ZrO 2 ) is the focus of recent investigations due to their high hardness, chemical inertness and optical properties (Abbe number ≈ 35) make them important target materials for the fabrication of metal-halide lamps, solid state lasers, scintillators and bar-code scanners [3][4][5][6]. Recently, t-ZrO 2 has been proved to be a highly luminescent material, which is photochemically stable with low phonon energy (470 cm −1 ) [7].…”

Fabrication of Nd:YAG transparent ceramics with TEOS, MgO and compound additives as sintering aids

“…Ikesue et al first demonstrated the possibility of obtaining laser output from Nd:YAG transparent ceramics with reasonable efficiency [3,4]. After that, with the development of powder preparing, shaping and vacuum sintering technology, the optical quality of transparent polycrystalline Nd:YAG is equivalent or even better than monocrystal Nd:YAG reported by a lot of studies [5,6].…”

Elasticity and lattice vibrational properties of transparent polycrystalline yttrium–aluminium garnet: Experiments and pair potential calculations

“…Undoped YAG translucent ceramics have been produced by de With et al, 8 and Nd-doped polycrystalline YAG by Sekita et al 9 Major work on the subject has been provided by teams of Ikesue and Konoshima Chemicals. 10 Recently, Rabinovitch et al 7 have demonstrated that high transparency and laser efficient polycrystalline YAG:Nd can be synthesized by sintering of commercial oxides. We used one of their polycrystalline sample in this study, with 2 at% Nd doping.…”