V. Baumer, A. Doroshenko, D. Kosyanov, S. Parkhomenko, A. Tolmachev, V. Voznyy, R. Yavetskiy
{"title":"Fabrication and characterization of 1–4 at.% Nd3+:Y3Al5O12 Laser Ceramics by solid-state reactive sintering","authors":"V. Baumer, A. Doroshenko, D. Kosyanov, S. Parkhomenko, A. Tolmachev, V. Voznyy, R. Yavetskiy","doi":"10.1109/OMEE.2014.6912374","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Peculiarities of phase formation and densification processes during reactive sintering of Nd3+:YAG laser ceramics prepared using particles with different size have been studied. It has been found that utilization of submicron powders can significantly reduce YAG formation temperature from 1700°C for coarse powder to 1200-1500°C for fine powders. Moreover, utilization of different-sized yttria and alumina particles provide a competitive advantage of shrinkage over expansion processes by changing the kinetics of YAG phase formation. Nd3+:YAG (1-4 at.%) laser ceramics with in-line optical transmission of about 81.5 % at λ=1064 nm has been produced by reactive sintering. Finally, we succeed in lasing of Nd3+:YAG (4 at.%) ceramics under pulsed laser diode pumping.","PeriodicalId":142377,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Oxide Materials for Electronic Engineering - fabrication, properties and applications (OMEE-2014)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2014-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Conference on Oxide Materials for Electronic Engineering - fabrication, properties and applications (OMEE-2014)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OMEE.2014.6912374","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Abstract
Peculiarities of phase formation and densification processes during reactive sintering of Nd3+:YAG laser ceramics prepared using particles with different size have been studied. It has been found that utilization of submicron powders can significantly reduce YAG formation temperature from 1700°C for coarse powder to 1200-1500°C for fine powders. Moreover, utilization of different-sized yttria and alumina particles provide a competitive advantage of shrinkage over expansion processes by changing the kinetics of YAG phase formation. Nd3+:YAG (1-4 at.%) laser ceramics with in-line optical transmission of about 81.5 % at λ=1064 nm has been produced by reactive sintering. Finally, we succeed in lasing of Nd3+:YAG (4 at.%) ceramics under pulsed laser diode pumping.