Optical Properties of Transparent Ceramics

Dear Colleagues,

As a newly emerged material, transparent ceramics have found many applications in areas such as envelopes in high power lamps, scintillators, electro-optic devices, and optical components, such as windows and lens. Furthermore, they have been used as gain mediums in solid-state lasers replacing single crystals with lower cost and higher efficiency. The detailed investigations of the physics properties of structured ceramic materials, especially their optical properties, play an important role in realizing and optimizing their existing and potential applications. Techniques such as Raman scattering, steady-state and time-resolved photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy, absorption/excitation spectroscopy, etc., are noninvasive and helpful means to investigate lattice vibrations, energy levels, nonlinear optical processes, carrier recombination processes and dynamics, and related physics procedures inside transparent ceramics, especially for rare-earth (RE) doped ones.

The aim of this Special Issue is to highlight the latest developments in the optical characterization of transparent ceramics, especially to advance the fundamental understanding of the relationship between doping type and concentration, growth conditions, and optical properties. Topics of interest also include the latest research on the advanced characterization of material properties and their applications in the optical area.

Dr. Changcheng Zheng
Guest Editor

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