Journal of Inorganic Materials

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Hydrothermal Growth of Emerald Laser Crystals

CHEN Zhen-Qiang1,2; ZHANG Ge1; HUANG Cheng-Hui1; SHEN Hong-Yuan1   

  1. 1. Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Fuzhou 350002; China; 2. National Engineering Techniques Center of Research on the Special Mineral Material; Guilin 541004; China
  • Received:2001-09-20 Revised:2001-11-12 Published:2002-11-20 Online:2002-11-20

Abstract: Emerald is an excellent tunable lasing medium. According to controlling seed orientation and using special nutrient separation quartz-seed stack-up technology, many plate and columnar emerald single crystals were hydrothermally grown in one autoclave at a time. Detected by absorption specta, microscope and laser experiment, the quality and characterization of the emerald crystals obtained are analogous to those of natural and other hydrothermal emeralds synthesized by other countries.

Key words: laser crystals, emerald, hydrothermal method

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