Feature issue introduction: optical ceramics

Jas Sanghera, Takunori Taira, and Hong Jin Kong

Opt. Mater. Express 4(10), 2221-2224 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

Study of the properties and prospects of Ce:TAG and TGG magnetooptical ceramics for optical isolators for lasers with high average power

Aleksey Starobor, Dmitry Zheleznov, Oleg Palashov, Chong Chen, Shengming Zhou, and Ryo Yasuhara

Opt. Mater. Express 4(10), 2127-2132 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

Anisotropic Yb:FAP laser ceramics by micro-domain control

Yoichi Sato, Mikayel Arzakantsyan, Jun Akiyama, and Takunori Taira

Opt. Mater. Express 4(10), 2006-2015 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

Effect of air annealing on the optical properties and laser performance of Nd:YAG transparent ceramics

Yuelong Fu, Jiang Li, Yang Liu, Lei Liu, Hong Zhao, and Yubai Pan

Opt. Mater. Express 4(10), 2108-2115 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

Yb³⁺-doped ceramic thin-disk lasers of Lu-based oxides

Hiroaki Nakao, Tatsuya Inagaki, Akira Shirakawa, Ken-ichi Ueda, Hideki Yagi, Takagimi Yanagitani, Alexander A. Kaminskii, Birgit Weichelt, Katrin Wentsch, Marwan Abdou Ahmed, and Thomas Graf

Opt. Mater. Express 4(10), 2116-2121 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

Generation of 500-mJ nanosecond pulses from a diode-pumped Yb:YAG TRAM laser amplifier

Shigeki Tokita, Martin Divoky, Hiroaki Furuse, Kakeru Matsumoto, Yuki Nakamura, Minoru Yoshida, Toshiyuki Kawashima, and Junji Kawanaka

Opt. Mater. Express 4(10), 2122-2126 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

Current status of the development of the Kumgang laser

Hong Jin Kong, Sangwoo Park, Seongwoo Cha, Heekyung Ahn, Hwihyeong Lee, Jungsuk Oh, Bong Ju Lee, Soungwoong Choi, and Jom Sool Kim

Opt. Mater. Express 4(12), 2551-2558 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical properties of Ho:YAG and Ho:LuAG polycrystalline transparent ceramics

Hao Yang, Le Zhang, Dewei Luo, Xuebin Qiao, Jian Zhang, Ting Zhao, Deyuan Shen, and Dingyuan Tang

Opt. Mater. Express 5(1), 142-148 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Highly transparent ceramics obtained from jet milled sesquioxide powders synthesized by co-precipitation method

Woohong Kim, Colin Baker, Guillermo Villalobos, Jesse Frantz, Brandon Shaw, Bryan Sadowski, Michael Hunt, Ishwar Aggarwal, and Jasbinder Sanghera

Opt. Mater. Express 4(12), 2497-2503 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

Nanostructured transparent ceramics with an anisotropic crystalline structure

Yiquan Wu

Opt. Mater. Express 4(10), 2026-2031 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

Post-sintering treatment of neodymium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet (Nd:YAG) transparent ceramics

Lucie Chrétien, Rémy Boulesteix, Alexandre Maître, Christian Sallé, and Yves Reignoux

Opt. Mater. Express 4(10), 2166-2173 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF

Anti-reflective surface structures for spinel ceramics and fused silica windows, lenses and optical fibers

Lynda E. Busse, Catalin M. Florea, Jesse A. Frantz, L. Brandon Shaw, Ishwar D. Aggarwal, Menelaos K. Poutous, Rajendra Joshi, and Jas S. Sanghera

Opt. Mater. Express 4(12), 2504-2515 (2014)  View: HTML | PDF