Materials for high-power laser optics: Figures of merit for thermally induced beam distortions

Optical Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1586-1595

  Klein, Claude A ^a,b,c  

^a CAK Analytics Inc   (United States)

^b AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Aberrations; High energy laser systems; High power laser; Mirrors; Optical materials; Optical systems; Thermal lensing; Windows

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000370819     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601174     Document Type: Article

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