Laser Induced Damage in Optical Materials

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Brian E. Newnam, David Milam
ASTM International, 1986 - 444 pages

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Contents

Glass Laser System with Liquid Crystal Polarizers
15
Nonlinear Rotatory Power of 90 Twisted Nematic Liquid Crystals
23
Picosecond Damage in Y 0 Stabilized Cubic Zirconia
31
CR GSGG Crystal
39
Laser Damage Studies of Several Methacrylate Polymeric Materials
49
Leed Analysis of Pulsed Laser Damage to Mo 100 Surfaces
59
The Effect of Defects on the Laser Damage Performance of Metal Mirror Surfaces
66
Application of a ComputerAutomated IR Sensitive Camera to the Determination
77
Pulse Duration Dependence of 1064nm Laser Damage Thresholds of Porous Silica
211
Variation of Transmittance Spectra of Porous Antireflection Coatings with Index Profile
217
Characterization of Aluminum NitrideAluminum Oxide Reactively Sputtered
233
Crystallization of Titania Films by Thermal Heating
253
Time Resolved Raman Studies of Laser Induced Damage in TiO2 Optical Coatings
262
Ultraviolet Thin Film Coating Characterization
272
Effect of Overcoats on 355nm Reflectors
285
Thermal Properties of Optical Thin Film Materials
291

HighPrecision DamageResistant MultiplePass Ultraviolet Reflectometer
85
A Low Loss High Power Variable Laser Attenuator
93
Studies of CO2 Laser Induced Damage to Infrared Optical Materials and Coatings
100
Surface Potential as a Laser Damage Diagnostic
116
Laser Generated Ripple Patterns on Dielectrics and Intermediate Band Gap Semiconductors
137
Surface Damage Mechanisms in Nontransparent Media
147
PicosecondPulse Damage Studies of Diffraction Gratings
154
Thin Films
162
Some Recent Observations on the Properties of UHVDeposited Zr02
171
Oxygen Threshold for IonBeam Sputter Deposited Oxide Coatings
180
Tomorrows Coatings TodayThey Need Help
187
High Damage Threshold Porous Silica Antireflective Coating
205
Interface and Bulk Absorption of Oxide Layers and Correlation to Damage Threshold
298
Effect of Anistropic Stress on Thin Film Damage Thresholds
313
Design of High Power Laser Coatings for Grazing Incidence Mirrors
322
The Design of Optimum High Reflectivity Coatings
330
Angular Dependence of MultilayerReflector Damage Threshold
342
Survey of Laser Damage Thresholds for High Reflector Films at 1 315 Microns
352
Single Pulse Laser Induced Damage in IR Coatings at 10 6 μm
371
Light Stripping of UV Dielectric Coatings
377
SelfFocusing in Damage Experiments Revisited
394
TwoPhoton Absorption Nonlinear Refraction and Optical Limiting in Semiconductors
404
List of Attendees
424
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