Laser-induced damage of hafnia coatings as a function of pulse duration in the femtosecond to nanosecond range

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Gallais, Laurent ^a   Mangote, Benoît ^a   Zerrad, Myriam ^a   Commandré, Mireille ^a   Melninkaitis, Andrius ^b   Mirauskas, Julius ^b   Jeskevic, Maksim ^b   Sirutkaitis, Valdas ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COATINGS; DEPOSITION; ELECTRONS;

AVALANCHE IONIZATION; DAMAGE MORPHOLOGY; DEPOSITION PARAMETERS; DEPOSITION PROCESS; INTRINSIC PROPERTY; LASER DAMAGE RESISTANCE; LASER DAMAGE THRESHOLD; LASER INDUCED DAMAGE THRESHOLDS;

LASER DAMAGE;

EID: 79751493204     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.00C178     Document Type: Article

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