The thin film damage competition series at the Boulder Damage Symposium provides an
opportunity to observe general trends in laser damage behavior between different coating …

Gallium oxide (Ga 2 O 3) is an emerging wide bandgap semiconductor with potential
applications in power electronics and high power optical systems where gallium nitride and …

High peak and average power lasers with high wall-plug efficiency, like the Big Aperture
Thulium (BAT) laser, have garnered tremendous attention in laser technology. To meet the …

The few cycle optical pulse induced strong field laser solid interaction is a rich area of
fundamental and applied research that spans from the study of extreme non-linearities in …

We report the influence of polarization on the damage mechanism of oxide thin films
submitted to multiple pulses in the sub-picosecond regime. We have exposed single layer …

Large scale laser facilities are needed to advance the energy frontier in high energy physics
and accelerator physics. Laser plasma accelerators are core to advanced accelerator …

High repetition rate, high peak, and average power laser systems are crucial for next-
generation particle accelerators, inertial confinement fusion, and secondary particle sources …

The 2023 Laser Damage conference thin-film damage competition was devoted to a survey
on the state-of-the-art broadband near-IR multilayer dielectric (MLD) mirrors designed for …

The interaction of ultrafast laser pulses and dielectric materials has been under intensive
research for improvement of laser induced damage of optics for high intensity lasers. A 2D …

Metal-dielectric low dispersion mirrors (MLDM) have a promising application prospect in
petawatt (PW) laser systems. We studied the damage characteristics of MLDM and found …