Orientation control of micro-domains in anisotropic laser ceramics

We present theoretical studies on the orientation control of micro-domains in anisotropic laser ceramics, and produce the distribution function of the crystal orientation in micro-domains including anisotropic laser ceramics. Also the improvement in the orientation distribution caused by preferential grain growth is discussed, where our theoretical analyses were applied to several different Nd:FAP ceramics. Detailed XRD analyses based on this distribution function show that the preferential grain growth improved the orientation distribution of the green body that was slip-casted under magnetic field. (C) 2013 Optical Society of America