Investigation of the distribution of laser damage precursors at 1064 nm, 12 ns on Niobia-Silica and Zirconia-Silica mixtures

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 26089-26098

  Fu, X ^a   Melnikaitis, A ^b   Gallais, L ^a   Kiacas S ^c   Drazdys, R ^c   Sirutkaitis, V ^b   Commandre M ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^c CENTER FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1064 NM; CRITICAL TEMPERATURES; DAMAGE PROBABILITY; DAMAGE PROCESS; DIRECT CALCULATION; FLUENCES; HIGH INDEX MATERIALS; ION-BEAM SPUTTERING; LASER INDUCED DAMAGE THRESHOLDS; LASER-DAMAGE PRECURSORS; LASER-INDUCED DAMAGE; METALLIC DEFECTS; OXIDE COATING; STATISTICAL APPROACH; SUBPICOSECOND REGIME; THERMAL MODEL; VOLUMETRIC FRACTIONS;

ENERGY GAP; LASERS; MIXTURES; NIOBIUM OXIDE; PROTECTIVE COATINGS; SILICA; THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT); ZIRCONIA;

LASER DAMAGE;

EID: 84869026256     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.026089     Document Type: Article

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