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Reliability of Optical Coatings Submitted to a High Power Continuous Wave Laser Beam

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2011

Jean Dijon
Affiliation:
CEA (Technologies Avancées) LETI/CMO, 17 rue des Martyrs, 38054 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
E. Duloisy
Affiliation:
CEA (Technologies Avancées) LETI/CMO, 17 rue des Martyrs, 38054 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
J. Hue
Affiliation:
CEA (Technologies Avancées) LETI/CMO, 17 rue des Martyrs, 38054 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
M. Ignat
Affiliation:
LPTCM/ENSEEG BP 75 38402 Saint Martin d'Héres, France
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Abstract

This paper shows experimental results concerning the life time of mirrors irradiated with a continuous wave CO2 laser. An experimental process and a possible mecanism of degradation are discussed.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1994

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