Transparent ceramics have various potential applications such as infrared (IR)
windows/domes, lamp envelopes, opto-electric components/devices, composite armors, and …

Plasma assisted combustion is a promising technology to improve engine performance,
increase lean burn flame stability, reduce emissions, and enhance low temperature fuel …

Performance of future ignition system for internal combustion engines should be reliable and
efficient to enhance and sustain combustion stability, since ignition not only initiates …

Solid-state laser has been widely used in industrial production, military weapons and
scientific research because of its compact structure, convenient use and high output power …

To meet the future requirements of fuel economy and exhaust emissions, high-efficiency
gasoline engines tend to employ diluted combustion concepts along with intensified charge …

Transparent laser ceramics have been demonstrated to offer tremendous processing and
design advantages in the diode-pumped solid-state laser field. Successfully developed …

Combustion is one of the most dominant energy conversion processes used in all areas of
human life, but global concerns over exhaust gas pollution and greenhouse gas emission …

Until recently, ceramic materials were considered unsuitable for optics due to the numerous
scattering sources, such as grain boundaries and residual pores. However, in the 1990s the …

Megawatt peak power, giant pulse microchip lasers are attractive for wavelength conversion,
provided their output is linearly polarized. We use a [110] cut Cr^ 4+: YAG for passively Q …

An experimental study was conducted to compare laser ignition (LI) and spark discharge
ignition (SDI) in an ethylene fueled supersonic combustor operating at a global equivalence …