Scandium oxide coatings for high-power UV laser applications
Abstract
Scandium oxide has proved to be a damage-resistant high-index material in laser coatings for use at 248 nm. The results of damage threshold measurements on laser reflectors and antireflection coatings of various designs, material combinations, and deposition temperatures are presented. The most significant effects are observed for overcoat layers on high reflectors and undercoat layers on antireflection coatings. Thresholds greater than 6 J/sq cm for 20 nsec pulses were observed in both cases.
- Publication:
-
Applied Optics
- Pub Date:
- October 1982
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1982ApOpt..21.3685R
- Keywords:
-
- Antireflection Coatings;
- High Power Lasers;
- Optical Reflection;
- Oxide Films;
- Scandium Oxides;
- Ultraviolet Lasers;
- Energy Conversion Efficiency;
- Laser Materials;
- Pulsed Lasers;
- Thresholds;
- Lasers and Masers;
- LASER DAMAGE;
- THIN FILMS;
- COATINGS