barium-sodium niobate

barium-sodium niobate

[′bar·ē·əm ′sōd·ē·əm ′nī·ə‚bāt]

(materials)

Synthetic electrooptical crystals used to produce coherent green light in lasers and to manufacture devices such as electrooptical modulators and optical polarimetric oscillators.

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