{"id":112839,"date":"2020-09-10T12:23:05","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T19:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/researchers-fabricate-high-quality-transparent-ceramic"},"modified":"2020-09-10T12:23:05","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T19:23:05","slug":"researchers-fabricate-high-quality-transparent-ceramic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/researchers-fabricate-high-quality-transparent-ceramic","title":{"rendered":"Researchers fabricate high-quality transparent ceramic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-fabricate-high-quality-transparent-ceramic2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mid-infrared lasers have been widely used in imaging, detection, diagnostics, environmental monitoring, medicine, industry, defense and others. For mid-infrared laser systems, low phonon energy gain materials are key factors.<\/p>\n<p>Among these mid-infrared materials, Er<sup>3+<\/sup>-doped CaF<sub>2<\/sub> transparent ceramics are promising candidate materials because of their ultra-low phonon energy as well as excellent physical, chemical, and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/optical+properties\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">optical properties<\/a>, which quickly attract the attention of researchers. However, traditional preparation methods can\u2019t obtain high-quality Er<sup>3+<\/sup>-doped CaF<sub>2<\/sub> transparent ceramics.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, a research team led by Prof. Zhang Long from the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a high quality Er<sup>3+<\/sup>-doped CaF<sub>2<\/sub> transparent ceramics by single crystal ceramization. Their study was published in Journal of the European Ceramic Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mid-infrared lasers have been widely used in imaging, detection, diagnostics, environmental monitoring, medicine, industry, defense and others. For mid-infrared laser systems, low phonon energy gain materials are key factors. Among these mid-infrared materials, Er3+-doped CaF2 transparent ceramics are promising candidate materials because of their ultra-low phonon energy as well as excellent physical, chemical, and optical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}