Solving the optics industry's problems: the bottom line / Harvey M. Pollicove
Historical perspective on fifteen years of laser damage thresholds at LLNL / Frank Rainer; Frank P. De Marco; Michael C. Staggs; Mark R. Kozlowski; L. Jeffrey Atherton; Lynn Matthew Sheehan
Dye-impregnated polymer-filled porous glass: a new composite material for solid state dye lasers and laser beam control optical elements / M.F. Koldunov; Alexander A. Manenkov; N.M. Sitnikov; S.M. Dolotov
Participation of laser-induced waveguide modes in optical damage of transparent dielectrics / Mikhail N. Libenson; Vladimir S. Makin; V.A. Shiryaev; M.J. Soileau
Bulk laser damage of large-size KDP crystals obtained at various crystal growth conditions / Marina I. Kolybayeva; Igor M. Pritula; Viacheslav M. Puzikov; Vitaly I. Salo; Serge V. Garnov; Sergei M. Klimentov
Long-term effects of pulsed KrF laser radiation on crystalline and amorphous SiO2 / Douglas J. Krajnovich; Iraj K. Pour
Picosecond light-pulse-induced damage to diamond / Claude A. Klein; Richard P. Miller; Richard John DeSalvo
Role of defects in the laser ablation of wide bandgap materials / J. Thomas Dickinson; L.C. Jensen; R.L. Webb; Jaw-Jung Shin; Steve C. Langford
Optical damage at the part per million level: the role of trace contamination in laser-induced optical damage / Floyd E. Hovis; Bart A. Shepherd; Christopher T. Radcliffe; Andrew L. Bailey; William T. Boswell
Laser damage threshold measurement according to ISO 11254: experimental realization at 1064 nm / Alexandra Starke; Achim Bernhardt
Polarized 10-ns frequency-doubled Nd:YAG laser-induced damage to titanium-doped sapphire / Yang Sun; Qiang Zhang; Huixing Gong
Why are thin films different from the bulk? / Milton Ohring
Role of defects in laser damage of multilayer coatings / Mark R. Kozlowski; Robert Chow
Optical characterization of dielectric films and modified surfaces / Gregory J. Exarhos
Ion beam sputtering of optical coatings / A.F. Stewart; Samuel M. Lu; Mohammad M. Tehrani; C. Volk
Large-area laser coatings made by energetic reactive processes / Walter T. Pawlewicz
Coping with the ever-increasing demands of laser-induced damage threshold requirements: a perspective / William T. Beauchamp
ISO 11254: an international standard for the determination of the laser-induced damage threshold / Juergen Becker; Achim Bernhardt
Crystal gazing into the future of optical coatings / Keith L. Lewis; John Simpson; Andrew M. Pitt; Jonathan R. Milward
Sol-gel coatings for high-power laser optics: past, present and future / Ian M. Thomas
Sol-gel metal oxide and metal oxide/polymer multilayers applied by meniscus coating / Jerald A. Britten; Ian M. Thomas
High-damage threshold antireflectors by physical-vapor-deposited amorphous fluoropolymer / Robert Chow; Maura K. Spragge; Gary E. Loomis; Ian M. Thomas; Frank Rainer; Richard L. Ward; Mark R. Kozlowski
Nonlinear absorption in high reflector multilayers / Christopher J. Stolz; Timothy G. Sarginson; John R. Taylor
Application of liquid crystals in visualizing the dynamically induced structure deformation modes in optical materials / Yuri I. Mescheryakov; S.A. Atroshenko; Maxim Georg Tomilin; N.I. Zhigachieva
Investigation of laser-induced damage to optical coatings / Cheng Fu Li; Zhong Ya Li; Yang Sun
Damage to coated ZnSe optical components by high-power CO2 laser radiation / C.R. Haas; Ernst-Wolfgang Kreutz; David A. Wesner
Laser damage issues for mid-IR optical parametric oscillator mirrors / Jonathan R. Milward; Keith L. Lewis; Andrew M. Pitt; J. Kirton; R.B. Overend; Desmond R. Gibson; J. Leonard; A. Hendry
Theory of laser-induced damage to optical coatings: inclusion-initiated thermal explosion mechanism / M.F. Koldunov; Alexander A. Manenkov; I.L. Pocotilo
Electrostatic reduction of particulates for laser resistant hafnia coatings / Mark G. Miller; Robert Chow; Gary E. Loomis
Optical constants and laser damage thresholds of silicon oxinitride thin films / Alexandra Starke; Achim Bernhardt
Very high-damage threshold Al2O3/SiO2 dielectric coatings for excimer lasers / Norbert Kaiser; Hein Uhlig; Uwe B. Schallenberg; Bernhard Anton; Ute Kaiser; Klaus R. Mann; Eric Eva
Characterization of nonlinear optical materials / Eric W. Van Stryland; Mansoor Sheik-Bahae; Ali A. Said; David J. Hagan; M.J. Soileau
Influence of radiation polarization on optical breakdown threshold of glasses by two beams / Oleg M. Efimov; Vladimir S. Popikov; Serge V. Garnov; M.J. Soileau
To scale or not to scale / Arthur H. Guenther; John K. McIver
Beyond perfection: the need for understanding contamination effects on real-world optics / Steven Guch Jr.; Floyd E. Hovis
Monte-Carlo-based calculation of measurement quality for three variants of the damage frequency method / Jonathan W. Arenberg
Generation-diffusion-deformational instabilities and formation of periodic damage structures in solids / Vladimir I. Emel'yanov
Novel process for figuring and polishing diamond surfaces / Sandor Holly; Nicholas Koumvakalis
Laser damage studies of etched diffractive-optic components / D.M. Spriggs; Thomas H. Bett
Laser damage studies of metal mirrors and ZnSe optics by long-pulse and TEA-CO2 lasers at 10.6 um / Wilfried Plass; Rene Krupka; Adolf Giesen; Herman E. Reedy; Michael Kennedy; Detlev Ristau
Critical temperature of mirrors under high-power continuous wave CO2 laser irradiation / Jean Hue; Jean DiJon; Philippe Lyan; Gilles Fournier
Contamination of surfaces prior to optical coating by in-situ total internal reflection microscopy / David W. Reicher; Kenneth C. Jungling; Charles K. Carniglia
Kinoform/lens system for injecting a high-power laser beam into an optical fiber / William C. Sweatt; Michael W. Farn
Damage studies in high-power fiber transmission systems / Robert E. Setchell
2-um laser damage and 3-6 um optical parametric oscillation in AgGaSe2 / Madhu A. Acharekar; L.H. Morton Jr.; Eric W. Van Stryland
Thermal and laser conditioning of production and rapid growth KDP and KD*P crystals / L. Jeffrey Atherton; Frank Rainer; James J. De Yoreo; Ian M. Thomas; N.P. Zaitseva; Frank P. De Marco
Development of high repetition-rate glass slab laser / Kanyoshi Ochi; Kunio Yoshida; T. Kotera; N. Namikawa; Schukichi Kaku
Improvement of pumping efficiency for disk amplifier / Kunio Yoshida; Kanyoshi Ochi; N. Namikawa; T. Kotera; L. Yuki; Hidetsugu Yoshida; Hisanori Fujita
Time- and frequency-resolved investigation of thin film laser damage / Eberhard Welsch; Klaus R. Mann; Michael Reichling; K. Ettrich
UV laser patterning of polymers: in-situ and nondestructive evaluation of incubation phenomena by photothermal techniques / Zhouling Wu; Eckart Matthias; S.S. Xue; Y. Zhang
Atomic force microscopy studies of laser-triggered morphology changes in Y2O3 monolayer coatings / Semyon Papernov; Ansgar W. Schmid
Atomic force microscopy observation of water-induced morphological changes in Y2O3 monolayer coatings / Semyon Papernov; Ansgar W. Schmid
Morphology investigations by atomic force microscopy of thin films and substrates for excimer laser mirrors / Angela Duparre; Norbert Kaiser; Stefan Jakobs
Characterization of defect geometries in multilayer optical coatings / Robert J. Tench; Robert Chow; Mark R. Kozlowski
Laser conditioning of optical coatings: some issues in the characterization by atomic force microscopy / Anne Fornier; C. Cordillot; Dominique Ausserre; F. Paris
High-power 1.315-um laser test of multilayer mirrors / Bradley J. Pond; Tu Du; S. Talley; Charles K. Carniglia; Jim J. McNally; Gerald B. Charlton
1.064-um laser damage studies of silicon oxy-nitride narrow band reflectors / Jonathan R. Milward; Keith L. Lewis; K. Sheach; Rudolf August Heinecke
Comparison of the optical properties of oxide films deposited by reactive-dc-magnetron sputtering with those of ion-beam-sputtered and electron-beam-evaporated films / Bradley J. Pond; Tu Du; J. Sobczak; Charles K. Carniglia
Photothermal microscopy of defects and laser damage morphology in Al2O3/SiO2 dielectric mirror coatings for 248 nm / Axel Bodemann; Michael Reichling; Norbert Kaiser; Eberhard Welsch
Optical and thermal characterization of barium titanate thin films prepared by metalorganic deposition / Zhouling Wu; S.S. Xue; Wahib Ousi-Benomar; Roger A. Lessard
Damage thresholds and optical stabilities of fluoride HR coatings for 193 nm / Takao Izawa; N. Yamamura; R. Uchimura; T. Yakuoh
Distributions of local electric fields in inhomogeneous media / Kim F. Ferris; Gregory J. Exarhos; Steven M. Risser
Color centers in lead-silicate glasses and their influence on accumulation effect / O.N. Bosyi; Oleg M. Efimov; Yurii A. Matveev; Andrei M. Mekryukov
Theoretical model for high-power annular repetitive-pulsed laser beams on coated optical components: transient temperature distribution / James R. Palmer
Theoretical model for round continuous wave transient temperature distribution in round optically transmissive materials using: the reverse thermal wave transform / James R. Palmer
Influence of ion exchange treatment on laser-induced damage of glass surface / Igor A. Bubnov; Oleg M. Efimov; Leonid B. Glebov; Nikolai V. Nikonorov; Vladimir S. Popikov
Experimental design of pulsed CO2 laser damage threshold testing at the high-energy laser systems test facility / Christopher T. Beairsto; Stephen M. Squires; Kevin Joseph Suter
Revised damage frequency method for the determination of laser damage threshold / Jonathan W. Arenberg
Requirements for the detection of damage events and measurement of laser fluence for high-quality damage threshold measurements / Jonathan W. Arenberg
Large-area conditioning of optics for high-power laser systems / Lynn Matthew Sheehan; Mark R. Kozlowski; Frank Rainer; Michael C. Staggs
Thermal optical numerical analysis anchored to high-energy laser optical testing / Burton D. O'Neil; Vance A. Hedin; Carol E. Hines; Jim J. McNally; Gerald B. Charlton; Robert Heimlich
Optical design method for controlling laser beam profiles / Burton D. O'Neil; Vance A. Hedin; Carol E. Hines
N-on-1 bulk damage of optical glasses and its analogies resistive to gamma radiation / Evaldas K. Maldutis
Analysis of laser-induced damage in optical materials: data from CO2 laser to 4th harmonic of Nd laser / George Gomelaury
Laser damage in MWIR MCT detectors / Vaidya Nathan
Ion-assisted deposition of high-quality thorium-free anti-reflection coatings for high-power CO2-lasers / Rainer Anton; Harro Hagedorn; A. Schnellbuegel; Guenter Lensch
Relief self-organization under laser action on surface / Illarion A. Dorofeev; Mikhail N. Libenson; Vladimir S. Makin; Vladimir V. Trubaev.