The nature of emission from optical breakdown induced by pulses of fs and ns duration

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5647, Issue , 2005, Pages 494-500

  Carr, C W ^a   Feit, M D ^a   Rubenchik, A M ^a   Demange, P ^a   Kucheyev, S ^a   Shirk, M D ^a   Radousky, H B ^a   Demos, S G ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

DKDP; Emission; KDP; Laser induced damage

Indexed keywords

DKDP; KDP; OPTICAL BREAKDOWN; SPECTRAL EMISSION;

FUSED SILICA; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; LASER PULSES; LIGHT EMISSION; MORPHOLOGY; PERMITTIVITY;

LASER DAMAGE;

EID: 18744366673     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.585925     Document Type: Conference Paper

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