• High Power Laser Science and Engineering
  • Vol. 6, Issue 1, 010000e2 (2018)
David Vojna1,4,†, Ryo Yasuhara2, Hiroaki Furuse3, Ondrej Slezak1..., Simon Hutchinson1, Antonio Lucianetti1, Tomas Mocek1 and Miroslav Cech4|Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1HiLASE Centre, Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Za Radnici 828, Dolni Brezany 252 41, Czech Republic
  • 2National Institute for Fusion Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, 322-6, Oroshi-cho, Toki, Gifu 509-5292, Japan
  • 3Kitami Institute of Technology, 165 Koen-cho, Kitami, Hokkaido, Japan
  • 4Department of Physical Electronics, Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Brehova 7, Prague 115 19, Czech Republic
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    DOI: 10.1017/hpl.2017.37 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    David Vojna, Ryo Yasuhara, Hiroaki Furuse, Ondrej Slezak, Simon Hutchinson, Antonio Lucianetti, Tomas Mocek, Miroslav Cech, "Faraday effect measurements of holmium oxide (Ho2O3) ceramics-based magneto-optical materials," High Power Laser Sci. Eng. 6, 010000e2 (2018) Copy Citation Text show less

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    Faraday effect measurements of holmium oxide (Ho2O3) ceramics-based magneto-optical materials, highly potential material candidates for high-energy laser Faraday isolators, are presented in this paper. Temperature dependence of the Verdet constant of nondoped Ho2O3 ceramics was measured for temperatures 15–305 K at $1.064~\unicode[STIX]{x03BC}\text{m}$ wavelength. The Verdet constant dispersion for wavelengths 0.5–$1~\unicode[STIX]{x03BC}\text{m}$ and $1.064~\unicode[STIX]{x03BC}\text{m}$ was measured for both nondoped Ho2O3 ceramics and Ho2O3 ceramics doped with terbium Tb3+ (0.2 at. %) and cerium Ce3+ (0.1 at. %) ions. The results suggest that the relatively low level of doping of Ho2O3 with these ions has no significant boosting impact on the Faraday effect. Therefore, other compositions of Ho2O3 ceramics-based magneto-optical materials, as well as various doping concentrations, should be further examined.
    David Vojna, Ryo Yasuhara, Hiroaki Furuse, Ondrej Slezak, Simon Hutchinson, Antonio Lucianetti, Tomas Mocek, Miroslav Cech, "Faraday effect measurements of holmium oxide (Ho2O3) ceramics-based magneto-optical materials," High Power Laser Sci. Eng. 6, 010000e2 (2018)
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