Low stress ion-assisted coatings on fused silica substrates for large aperture laser pulse compression gratings

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7132, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Smith, Douglas J ^a   McCullough, Mike ^a   Smith, Claire ^a   Mikami, Takuya ^b   Jitsuno, Takahisa ^c  

^a Plymouth Grating Laboratory Inc   (United States)

^b Okamoto Optics Works Co Ltd   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gratings; Hafnia; Ion Assist; Laser Damage; Silica; Stress

Indexed keywords

BK7 GLASS; COATING UNIFORMITIES; COMPRESSED PULSE; FULL SCALE; FUSED SILICA SUBSTRATES; GRATINGS; HAFNIA; HIGH VACUUMS; ION ASSIST; ION-ASSISTED DEPOSITIONS; LARGE APERTURES; LASER SYSTEMS; LOW STRESS; MULTI-LAYER DIELECTRIC GRATINGS; OSAKA UNIVERSITIES; PULSE COMPRESSORS; SILICA SUBSTRATES; SMALL SPOTS; VACUUM ENVIRONMENTS; WAVE-FRONT DISTORTIONS;

BENDING (FORMING); COMPRESSORS; HAFNIUM COMPOUNDS; ION BEAM ASSISTED DEPOSITION; IONS; LASER DAMAGE; LASER PULSES; LASERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OXIDES; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; SILICA; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SUBSTRATES; THERMAL EXPANSION; VACUUM; WAVEFRONTS;

FUSED SILICA;

EID: 62149117908     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.817336     Document Type: Conference Paper

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