F-35 Fighter Jet Window Sapphire EOTS Cut Loose Gems (F35 Gem) bgo-12 yielding an amazing and unique

yielding an amazing and unique gem

Czochralski-pulled cobalt spinel can be grown to ultra high purities and used in lasers as a Q switch

This means that it shows a mixture of red and green flashes

This allows a laser to charge its crystal up to a higher energy level before suddenly releasing it all in a single powerful burst instead of shooting out in a continuous beam

While the original Nd YAG lasers only added Nd it was soon discovered that Ce could act as a booster to its power

F-35 Fighter Jet Window Sapphire EOTS Cut Loose Gems (F35 Gem) bgo-12 yielding an amazing and uniqueThese are lab created sapphires which were grown for use as a sensor window in the F35 fighter jet but didn't meet spec. They've been faceted in my custom EOTS design which mimics the shape of the sensor array they would have been a part of if they made spec! These stones glow blue under shortwave UV because of titanium contamination. This is a really cool material lab sapphire grown for windows on the F35! These aren't used on the cockpit but on a