Damage testing of critical optical components for high power ultra fast lasers

Enam Chowdhury; Patrick Poole; Sheng Jiang; Brittany Taylor; Rebecca Daskalova; Linn Van Woerkom; Richard Freeman; Douglas Smith

doi:10.1117/12.867023

2 December 2010 Damage testing of critical optical components for high power ultra-fast lasers

Enam Chowdhury, Patrick Poole, Sheng Jiang, Brittany Taylor, Rebecca Daskalova, Linn Van Woerkom, Richard Freeman, Douglas Smith

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Proceedings Volume 7842, Laser-Induced Damage in Optical Materials: 2010; 78421Y (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.867023
Event: Laser Damage Symposium XLII: Annual Symposium on Optical Materials for High Power Lasers, 2010, Boulder, Colorado, United States

Abstract

Mirrors and gratings used in high power ultra fast lasers require a broad bandwidth and high damage fluence, which is essential to the design and construction of petawatt class short pulse lasers. Damage fluence of several commercially available high energy broad band dielectric mirrors with over 100 nm bandwidth at 45 degree angle of incidence, and pulse compression reflection gratings with gold coating with varying processing conditions is studied using a 25 femtosecond ultra-fast laser.

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Enam Chowdhury, Patrick Poole, Sheng Jiang, Brittany Taylor, Rebecca Daskalova, Linn Van Woerkom, Richard Freeman, and Douglas Smith "Damage testing of critical optical components for high power ultra-fast lasers", Proc. SPIE 7842, Laser-Induced Damage in Optical Materials: 2010, 78421Y (2 December 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.867023

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