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YAG Laser Crystal: Surface Characteristics of Polished YAG Laser Crystal (Crystal Research and Technology 5/2019)
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
crystal research and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.377
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1521-4079
pISSN - 0232-1300
DOI - 10.1002/crat.201970018
Subject(s) - polishing , crystal (programming language) , materials science , laser , optics , single crystal , crystallography , computer science , composite material , physics , chemistry , programming language
The cover shows a sample photograph of a large‐size Y 3 Al 5 O 12 (YAG) laser crystal slab obtained by the optimized polishing process proposed in article number 1800274 by Ruiqing Xie and co‐workers. The authors used a three‐step polishing method combining different abrasives and polishing plate materials and obtained optimum results for Al 2 O 3 abrasive with a composite tin plate. The indentation morphology of the YAG crystal as characterized by a field emission scanning electron microscope is shown bottom right.