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Eden, James G. Hewitt, John 2010-08-20T17:58:59Z 2010-08-20T17:58:59Z 2010-08-20T17:58:59Z 2010-08 Nd:YAG lasers have become ubiquitous as tools for spectroscopy, materials processing, and medical care. It is well known by crystal growers that lattice defects in Nd:YAG can stifle laser efficiency, but to date very little has been done to isolate and characterize individual YAG defects. Knowing the spectral characteristics of these defects would make detection of distinct defects in a sample possible. This thesis describes a set of experiments performed to characterize these defects spectroscopically. Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf (zulauf@illinois.edu) on 2010-07-08T21:28:15Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 1 Hewitt_John.pdf: 1344262 bytes, checksum: 87964f200b69adca35636337c3578441 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2010-08-20T17:58:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Hewitt_John.pdf: 1344262 bytes, checksum: 87964f200b69adca35636337c3578441 (MD5) license.txt: 4060 bytes, checksum: 8d1695fd038f0074bce07e7ce44fb740 (MD5) http://hdl.handle.net/2142/16826 en Copyright 2010 John D. Hewitt yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG) color center lattice defect Nd:YAG laser spectroscopy Laser spectroscopy of color centers in yttrium aluminum garnet Electrical & Computer Eng 1933 Electrical & Computer Engr 1200 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thesis M.S. MS:Electr & Computer Eng-UIUC 10KS1200MS