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Optical Fluoride Nanoceramics

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This paper examines methods for the fabrication of optical fluoride nanoceramics and the compaction behavior of precursor powders. We discuss the basic drawbacks to the ceramics under consideration from the viewpoint of the physicochemical properties of fluorides. Lasing in ceramics has been demonstrated in the visible (praseodymium) and IR (neodymium, erbium, thulium, and ytterbium) spectral regions. The advantages of optical ceramics include the possibility of preparing large-aperture samples with improved mechanical characteristics and the presence of their own set of defects, including extensive polysynthetic twinning, which leads to the formation of new optical centers.

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We are grateful to V.V. Osiko, T.T. Basiev, and E.A. Garibin for initiating the research on laser ceramics at the Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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Kuznetsov, S.V., Alexandrov, A.A. & Fedorov, P.P. Optical Fluoride Nanoceramics. Inorg Mater 57, 555–578 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0020168521060078

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