Processing of ceramics: breakthroughs in optical materials /

"In the 1950's, Dr. R. L. Coble of MIT demonstrated that polycrystalline alumina ceramics can transmit light by using high purity raw materials and controlling the microstructure of ceramics. This technology has been applied to sodium discharge lamps, and today this technology is still wid...

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Corporate Authors: Wiley Online Library (Online service); John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Group Author: Ikesue, Akio, 1958-
Published: Wiley,
Publisher Address: Hoboken, New Jersey :
Publication Dates: [2021]
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119538806
Summary: "In the 1950's, Dr. R. L. Coble of MIT demonstrated that polycrystalline alumina ceramics can transmit light by using high purity raw materials and controlling the microstructure of ceramics. This technology has been applied to sodium discharge lamps, and today this technology is still widely used for lighting. However, the applications of ceramics to date was extremely limited due to insufficient optical quality. Nowadays optical ceramic offer a much wider range of uses such as in lenses, transmission flats, mirrors, and prisms--and active optics--for example laser gain media, frequency converters, polarizers, and adaptive optics. Manufacturing next generation optics have been and will continue to be enablers for enhancing the performance of advance laser, imaging, and spectroscopy systems"--
Item Description: Description based on print version record.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xvi, 416 pages) : illustrations
Also available in print.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781119538806 (electronic bk.)
9781119538707
Index Number: QC378
CLC: TQ174.4