Self-focusing and surface damage in fused silica windows of variable thickness with UV nanosecond pulses

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5273, Issue , 2004, Pages 136-144

  Bercegol, Hervé ^a   Boscheron, Alain ^a   Lepage, Christian ^a   Mazataud, Elisabeth ^a   Donval, Thierry ^a   Lamaignère, Laurent ^a   Loiseau, Marc ^a   Razé, Gérard ^a   Sudre, Caroline ^a  

^a CEA Ctr Etud Sci/Tech Aquitaine   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; FREQUENCY MODULATION; FUNCTIONS; INSTALLATION; LASER PULSES; LIGHT PROPAGATION; SILICA;

NANOSECOND PULSES; SELF-FOCUSING; SURFACE DAMAGE; VARIABLES;

LASER DAMAGE;

EID: 5544232316     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.524841     Document Type: Conference Paper

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