| 摘要 |
An object of the present invention is to provide a transparent ceramics which exhibits favorable slope efficiency well comparable to that of a single crystal when employed in solid lasers, yet having a uniform quality and internally free from pores, foreign matters, or granular structures. Another object of the present invention is to provide a production method therefor. The above problems have been overcome by a transparent YAG-ceramics (YAG: Y3Al5O12) the physical properties thereof is improved by doping a metallic element, provided that the concentration of the doped metallic elements is in a range of from 0.1 to 20% by weight, that the concentration of nitrogen is 500 ppm or lower, that said ceramics has pores and foreign matters accounting for less than 100 mm<2 >per 100 cm<3 >as expressed by their projected area, and that it has an internal transmittance for visible radiations of 50 %/cm of higher. The metallic element for doping the YAG-ceramic is Nd.
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