TY - JOUR
T1 - Improved Hardness of Single-Crystal Nd 3+
T2 - YAG to Ionizing Radiation via Co-Doping with Cr 3+
AU - Glebov, Boris L.
AU - Simmons-Potter, Kelly
AU - Fox, Brian P.
AU - Meister, Dorothy C.
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received July 01, 2011; revised December 21, 2011 and February 29, 2012; accepted March 03, 2012. Date of publication April 10, 2012; date of current version June 12, 2012. This work was supported in part by the University of Arizona and the State of Arizona TRIF funds and in part by Sandia National Laboratories, under Contract DE-AC04-94AL85000. B. L. Glebov, K. Simmons-Potter, and B. P. Fox are with the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA (e-mail: [email protected]). D. C. Meister is with Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185 USA. Color versions of one or more of the figures in this paper are available online at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org. Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TNS.2012.2190746
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - The proliferation of optical elements in systems that are subject to harsh ionizing radiation environments prompts the need for commercially available radiation-hard materials, such as laser materials. In the present study, changes in the material optical absorption are compared for a suite of single-crystal YAG, Nd 3+ YAG, and Cr 3+, Nd 3+ : YAG laser materials in response to high-dose-rate gamma radiation events. It is found that the addition of Cr 3+ yields radiation hardened material.
AB - The proliferation of optical elements in systems that are subject to harsh ionizing radiation environments prompts the need for commercially available radiation-hard materials, such as laser materials. In the present study, changes in the material optical absorption are compared for a suite of single-crystal YAG, Nd 3+ YAG, and Cr 3+, Nd 3+ : YAG laser materials in response to high-dose-rate gamma radiation events. It is found that the addition of Cr 3+ yields radiation hardened material.
KW - Chromium neodymium YAG
KW - gamma
KW - neodymium YAG
KW - photodarkening
KW - radiation-hardened
KW - transient radiation-induced absorption
KW - YAG laser material
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U2 - 10.1109/TNS.2012.2190746
DO - 10.1109/TNS.2012.2190746
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84862617469
SN - 0018-9499
VL - 59
SP - 612
EP - 618
JO - IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
JF - IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
IS - 3 PART 2
M1 - 6180196
ER -