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ASTM Selected Technical Papers
Laser Induced Damage In Optical Materials: 1983
By
HE Bennett
HE Bennett
1
Naval Weapons Center
?
China Lake, California 93555
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AH Guenther
AH Guenther
2
Air Force Weapons Laboratory Kirtland Air Force Base
,
New Mexico 87117
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D Milam
D Milam
3
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
?
Livermore, California 94550
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BE Newnam
BE Newnam
4
Los Alamos National Laboratory
?
Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545
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ISBN-10:
0-8031-0930-X
ISBN:
978-0-8031-0930-8
No. of Pages:
584
Publisher:
ASTM International
Publication date:
1985

Predamage electron emission shows a dependence on fluence, bandgap and wavelength consistent with multiphoton excitation across the bandgap and inconsistent with avalanche ionization and thermionic emission models. The electron emission scales with pulselength as τ−1/2.

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, “
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,”
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17
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.
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S.
, “
Phenomenological Theory of Laser Induced Damage in Insulators
,”
Phys. Rev.
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).
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and
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,
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(
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)
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5.
Milam
D.
, “
Measurement and Identification of Laser Damage Thresholds in Thin Films
,”
Proceeding of the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers
, Vol.
140
, Optical Coatings II (
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).
6.
Smith
W. L.
,
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, and
Weber
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, “
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,”
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