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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. (CLEO). Conference on
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-795-4
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2005.202406
