Vacuum laser damage test bench

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5991, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Allenspacher, Paul ^a   Riede, Wolfgang ^a   Wernham, Denny ^b   Capanni, Annalisa ^c   Era, Fabio ^c  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^c GALILEO AVIONICA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Laser fatigue effect; Laser optics qualification; Space based laser; Transient pressure sensing; Vacuum damage

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; LASER OPTICS; LASER PULSES; OPTICAL TESTING; STANDARDS; VACUUM;

LASER FATIGUE EFFECTS; LASER OPTICS QUALIFICATION; SPACE-BASED LASERS; TRANSIENT PRESSURE SENSING; VACUUM DAMAGE;

LASER DAMAGE;

EID: 33644605170     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.638550     Document Type: Conference Paper

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