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Ceramic Laser Materials

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Jasbinder S. Sanghera *
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Woohong Kim
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Guillermo Villalobos
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Brandon Shaw
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Colin Baker
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Jesse A. Frantz
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Bryan Sadowski
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Ishwar D. Aggarwal
DOI:10.3390/ma5020258delete
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Ceramic laser materials have come a long way since the first demonstration of lasing in 1964. Improvements in powder synthesis and ceramic sintering as well as novel ideas have led to notable achievements. These include the first Nd:yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG) ceramic laser in 1995, breaking the 1 KW mark in 2002 and then the remarkable demonstration of more than 100 KW output power from a YAG ceramic laser system in 2009. Additional developments have included highly doped microchip lasers, ultrashort pulse lasers, novel materials such as sesquioxides, fluoride ceramic lasers, selenide ceramic lasers in the 2 to 3 mu m region, composite ceramic lasers for better thermal management, and single crystal lasers derived from polycrystalline ceramics. This paper highlights some of these notable achievements.
Keywords:
ceramics
laser materials
100 KW
microchip lasers
ultrashort pulse
ceramic composites
non-oxide ceramics
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