• DocumentCode
    2987808
  • Title

    Mitigating laser damage in glasses and crystals, using pulsetrain-burst (<100 MHz) ultrafast laser processing

  • Author

    Marjoribanks, Robin ; Frank, Felix ; Graper, David ; McKinney, Luke ; Soudagar, Yasman ; Nantel, Marc ; Shirk, Michael ; Stuart, Brent

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys., Toronto Univ., Ont., Canada
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    22-27 May 2005
  • Firstpage
    2172
  • Abstract
    Damage to optics caused by lasers may be mitigated by material-processing with ultrafast lasers. Ultrahigh (<100 MHz) repetition-rate pulsetrains afford special control of residual heat. We describe studies in fused silica and crystals.
  • Keywords
    high-speed optical techniques; laser beam effects; laser materials processing; optical glass; SiO2; fused silica; glasses; laser damage; repetition-rate pulsetrains; ultrafast laser processing; Biomedical optical imaging; Crystals; Glass; Optical materials; Optical pulses; Optical refraction; Optical variables control; Silicon compounds; Surface morphology; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. (CLEO). Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-795-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEO.2005.202406
  • Filename
    1573472