Abstract

Pulsed laser-induced surface damage measurements were made on eighteen well-characterized optical coatings as part of a round-robin experiment involving eight laboratories in Europe and the United States. The test apparatus, experimental procedures, and data reduction methods are described in detail. Conventional failure thresholds and minimum intensities are tabulated for several failure modes on all samples. Damage onsets are reported for two samples. Factors which must be considered when comparing results obtained with different temporal and spatial profiles are discussed.

© 1984 Optical Society of America

1.06-μm laser damage of optical coatings: regression analyses of round-robin test results

Karl H. Guenther and Roland G. Menningen
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1.06-μm laser damage of thin film optical coatings: a round-robin experiment involving various pulse lengths and beam diameters

K. H. Guenther, T. W. Humpherys, J. Balmer, J. R. Bettis, E. Casparis, J. Ebert, M. Eichner, A. H. Guenther, E. Kiesel, R. Kuehnel, D. Milam, W. Ryseck, S. C. Seitel, A. F. Stewart, H. Weber, H. P. Weber, G. R. Wirtenson, and R. M. Wood
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Measurement at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory of thresholds of samples in the Balzers round-robin laser-damage experiment

David Milam
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Laser damage test on Balzers thin film coatings

A. Pieter Schwarzenbach, Heinz P. Weber, and Jürg E. Balmer
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