Determination of stress waves and their effect on the damage extension induced by surface defects of KDP crystals under intense laser irradiation

W Ding, L Zhao, M Chen, J Cheng, G Chen, H Lei… - Optica, 2023 - opg.optica.org
The residual crack defects on the surface of potassium dihydrogen phosphate (KDP) crystals
are the bottleneck that limits the improvement<? TeX 2pc 0pt?> of laser damage resistance …

Laser-Induced Microexplosion Confined in the Bulk of a Sapphire Crystal:<? format?> Evidence of Multimegabar Pressures

S Juodkazis, K Nishimura, S Tanaka, H Misawa… - Physical review …, 2006 - APS
Extremely high pressures (<? format?>∼<? format?> 10 TPa) and temperatures (5× 10 5 K)
have been produced using a single laser pulse (100 nJ, 800 nm, 200 fs) focused inside a …

Crack-free high-aspect ratio holes in glasses by top–down percussion drilling with infrared femtosecond laser GHz-bursts

P Balage, J Lopez, G Bonamis… - … Journal of Extreme …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We report novel results on top-down percussion drilling in different glasses with
femtosecond laser GHz-bursts. Thanks to this particular regime of light–matter interaction …

Damage mechanisms avoided or managed for NIF large optics

KR Manes, ML Spaeth, JJ Adams… - Fusion Science and …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
After every other failure mode has been considered, in the end, the high-performance limit of
all lasers is set by optical damage. The demands of inertial confinement fusion (ICF) pushed …

[HTML][HTML] Recent Advances in Laser-Induced Surface Damage of KH2PO4 Crystal

M Chen, W Ding, J Cheng, H Yang, Q Liu - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
As a hard and brittle material, KDP crystal is easily damaged by the irradiation of laser in a
laser-driven inertial confinement fusion device due to various factors, which will also affect …

Linear/nonlinear optical properties of functional inorganic MgO nano-filler in PVA transparent polymer for flexible optoelectronic devices

AMA Shamekh, NM Shaalan, TA Hanafy… - Physica B: Condensed …, 2023 - Elsevier
Structural features of different PVA/MgO nanocomposite films, where 0≤ M g O wt%≤ 5,
using XRD and Raman spectra were correlated with their linear/nonlinear optical properties …

Transition from thermal diffusion to heat accumulation in high repetition rate femtosecond laser writing of buried optical waveguides

SM Eaton, H Zhang, ML Ng, J Li, WJ Chen, S Ho… - Optics express, 2008 - opg.optica.org
A variable (0.2 to 5 MHz) repetition rate femtosecond laser was applied to delineate the role
of thermal diffusion and heat accumulation effects in forming low-loss optical waveguides in …

Laser-matter interaction in the bulk of a transparent solid: Confined microexplosion and void formation

EG Gamaly, S Juodkazis, K Nishimura, H Misawa… - Physical Review B …, 2006 - APS
We present here the experimental and theoretical studies of a single femtosecond laser
pulse interaction inside a bulk of transparent media (sapphire, glass, polymer). This …

Bulk and surface laser damage of silica by picosecond and nanosecond pulses at

AV Smith, BT Do - Applied optics, 2008 - opg.optica.org
We measured bulk and surface dielectric breakdown thresholds of pure silica for 14 ps and
8 ns pulses of 1064 nm light. The thresholds are sharp and reproducible. For the 8 ns pulses …

[KNJIGA][B] Femtosecond laser-matter interaction: theory, experiments and applications

EG Gamaly - 2011 - taylorfrancis.com
This is the first comprehensive treatment of the interaction of femtosecond laser pulses with
solids at nonrelativistic intensity. It connects phenomena from the subtle atomic motion on …