Extracting the distribution of laser damage precursors on fused silica surfaces for 351 nm, 3 ns laser pulses at high fluences (20-150 J/cm 2)

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 11561-11573

  Laurence, Ted A ^a   Bude, Jeff D ^a   Ly, Sonny ^a   Shen, Nan ^a   Feit, Michael D ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER PULSES; SILICA;

ANALYSIS METHOD; BEAM DAMAGE; DAMAGE INITIATION; DAMAGE PROBABILITY; DAMAGE TESTS; FLUENCES; HIGH DENSITY; HIGH ENERGY PULSE; INERTIAL CONFINEMENT; LASER-DAMAGE PRECURSORS; LASER-PULSE ENERGY; SILICA SURFACE; TEST SITE;

LASER DAMAGE;

SILICON DIOXIDE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASER; OPTICS; PHASE TRANSITION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASERS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHASE TRANSITION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SILICON DIOXIDE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84861137226     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.011561     Document Type: Article

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