Mitigation of laser damage growth in fused silica by using a non-evaporative technique |
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| Authors: | Jiang Yong Liu Chun-Ming Luo Cheng-Si Yuan Xiao-Dong Xiang Xia Wang Hai-Jun He Shao-Bo L&# Hai-Bing Ren Wei Zheng Wan-Guo Zu Xiao-Tao |
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| Affiliation: | a. Department of Applied Physics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China;
b. Research Center of Laser Fusion, China Academy of Engineering Physics, Mianyang 621900, China |
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| Abstract: | A non-evaporative technique is used to mitigate damage sites with lateral sizes in a range from 50 μm to 400 μm and depths smaller than 100 μm. The influence of the pulse frequency of a CO2 laser on the mitigation effect is studied. It is found that a more symmetrical and smooth mitigation crater can be obtained by increasing the laser pulse frequency form 0.1 to 20 kHz. Furthermore, the sizes of laser-affected and distorted zones decrease with the increase of the laser pulse frequency, leading to less degradation of the wave-front quality of the conditioned sample. The energy density of the CO2 laser beam is introduced for selecting the mitigation parameters. The damage sites can be successfully mitigated by increasing the energy density in a ramped way. Finally, the laser-induced damage threshold (LIDT) of the mitigated site is tested using 355 nm laser beam with a small spot (0.23 mm2) and a large spot (3.14 mm2), separately. It is shown that the non-evaporative mitigation technique is a successful method to stop damage re-initiation since the average LIDTs of mitigated sites tested with small or large laser spots are higher than that of pristine material. |
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| Keywords: | fused silica CO2 laser non-evaporative technique energy density |
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