Laser damage

R. M. Wood, Laser Damage in Optical Materials, AdamHilger, Bristol, U.K., 1986. 

Laser-damage coatings for high-power laser windows.t" ]... 

Sample Imaging, Spectral Acquisition Time and Laser Damage... 

In what follows, the laser damage characteristics are discussed when both alternating current electric fields and ultra-short pulse lasers are simultaneously applied to the dielectric materials. It is true that very high electric fields may allow the electron to reach an energy level sufficient to ionize, causing the impact ionization. As discussed earlier, the damage... 

Tien, A., Backus, S., Kapteyn, H., Murnane, M., and Momou, G. (1999) Short-Pulse Laser Damage in Transp -ent Materials as a Fimction of Pulse Duration, Physical Review Letters, Vol. 82, pp. 3883-3886. 

The diameters D of the laser-damaged (ablated) areas are determined with a microscope. The laser fluence sufficient to ablate the material (for a fixed pulse duration r and number of pulses per spot N) is named threshold fluence Fth-... 

T.M. Donovan, J.O. Porteus, S.C. Seitel and P. Kratz,- Multithreshold HF/DF Pulsed Laser Damage Measurements on Evaporated and Sputtered Silicon Films, inrLaser-Induced Damage in Optical Materials, 1980, H.E. Bennett, A.J. Glass, A.H. Guenther and B.E. Newnam, (Eds.), NBS Spec. Publ. 620, (198 1) pp. 305 - 312. 

W.T. Pawlewicz, I.B. Mann, W.H. Lowdermilk and D. Milam, Laser damage resistant transparent conductive indium tin oxide coatings, Appl.Phys. Lett., 34,(1979) 196. 

Fauchet, P. M., Campbell, I. H., and Adar, F. Long-Range Material Relaxation After Localized Laser Damage. Appl. Phys. Lett. 47 479-486 (1985)... 

Exarhos, G. J., and Morse, P. L. Raman Studies of Laser-Damaged Single- and Multi-Layer Optical Coatings. Pro. Soc. Photo-Opt. Instrum. Enq. 540 460-466 (1985)... 

For all the sol-gel based optical-coatings we have already developed, the optical performances exceed 99% transmission and the laser damage thresholds ate over 16 J/cm at 1064nm - 3 ns and over 10 J/cm at 355 nm - 3ns. These laser damage threshold figures are much better than those corresponding to similar vacuum evaporated coatings. 

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