title: Experimental study of thermally induced depolarization in Nd:YAG ceramics.
abstract: Spatial modulation of a laser beam with a transverse size of the order of one grain size is experimentally found at thermal depolarization in Nd:YAG ceramics. This effect, which was theoretically predicted earlier, is typical for ceramics only, with no analogs either in glasses or in single crystals.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Mukhin
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Palashov
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Khazanov
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ikesue
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Aung