Abstract
Single- and multiple-shot damage thresholds and plasma-emission thresholds for fused silica and CaF2 are reported for 790 nm photons as a function of laser pulse width (190 fs - 4.5 ps). The results are compared with single-shot plasma-emission measurements [1] and with multiple-shot damage measurements [2]. Both the damage threshold and the plasma-emission threshold are shown to decrease with decreasing pulse width over the entire pulse-width range investigated.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 293-294 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue number | 3 |
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| State | Published - Mar 1996 |