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Transparent Ceramics

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Transparent ceramics have found various applications, including lasers, scintillator, electro-optical, lighting, and armors, with their applications in solid-state lasers being the most important and most extensively and intensively studied. In this chapter, transparent ceramics for the applications in solid-state lasers will be presented in detail.

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