Dependence of birefringence and residual stress near laser-induced cracks in fused silica on laser fluence and on laser-pulse number

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 33, 1998, Pages 7772-7784

  Dahmani, Faiz ^a   Schmid, Ansgar W ^a   Lambropoulos, John C ^a   Burns, Stephen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b University of Rochester   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION; IRRADIATION; LASER DAMAGE; LASER PULSES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MECHANICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PHOTOELASTICITY; RESIDUAL STRESSES;

CRACK ANALYSIS; FAILURE STRENGTH; LASER FLUENCE; LASER INDUCED CRACKS; PHOTOELASTIC STRESS MEASUREMENTS;

FUSED SILICA;

EID: 0032553284     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.007772     Document Type: Article

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